[C++-sig] installing boost python on osx fails with non-system python (original) (raw)

Evert evert.rol at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 16:30:27 CET 2009

Hi all,

I'm trying to install boost python on my mac. I initially tried installing through macports, but that failed (see also http://lists.macosforge.org/pipermail/macports-users/2009-January/013226.html)

Thinking that it might be something in boost (+python) itself, I tried to manually install boost, using the macports python (version 2.5.4). But that fails as well: the libboost_python-mt.dylib library still has /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.5/Python as dependency (which is also the result when installing through macports, as mentioned in the above link).

Using "brute force", I moved /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework, so that it cannot be picked up. Unfortunately, the macports version (living in /opt/local/Library/) is still not picked up; as a result, the dynamic library is simply not built with this "hack". I have specified --with-python and even --with-python-root pointing to the macports installation, without any luck.

The last thing I could think of was something hardcoded, and the best I could find was in ./tools/build/v2/tools/python.jam, where it somewhere reads local prefix = [ GLOB /System/Library/Frameworks /Library/Frameworks : Python.framework ] ; But changing that to include /opt/local/Library/Frameworks (as a wild guess) didn't work either.

Perhaps this issue is more related to the macports Python installation than to boost python (some search results on this results hint in that direction), but at the moment, I'm running out of ideas. If anyone has a suggestion, or familiar situations (or, eg, a positive build result with yet another Python version), that's most welcome.

Ah yes, and the system information: mac os 10.5, G5 PPC (64 bit). Hopefully that isn't relevant here though.

Evert

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