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Can't build Boost Python 3 on macOS #399

Open light-tech opened 1 year ago

light-tech commented 1 year ago

Made a report https://github.com/boostorg/python/issues/401 in the boostorg/boost repo so I am transfering here to be more relevant.

Using official Python at python.org, building Boost Python 3 (Boost 1.80.0) with

./bootstrap.sh --with-libraries=python --with-python=python3
./b2 --debug-configuration --debug-building --debug-generator install

does not work: bootstrap.sh seems to work as it detected the right Python root location

Detecting Python version... 3.10
Detecting Python root... /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10

However, b2 then reports

notice: [python-cfg] Configuring python...
notice: [python-cfg]   user-specified version: "3.10"
notice: [python-cfg]   user-specified cmd-or-prefix: "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10"
notice: [python-cfg] Checking interpreter command "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/python"...
notice: [python-cfg] running command '/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/bin/python -c "from sys import *; print('version=%d.%d\nplatform=%s\nprefix=%s\nexec_prefix=%s\nexecutable=%s' % (version_info[0],version_info[1],platform,prefix,exec_prefix,executable))" 2>&1'
notice: [python-cfg] ...does not invoke a working interpreter

Apparently, the Python 3 installer on macOS does not created bin/python, only bin/python3. Shouldn't it take into account the suggested name for the Python executable in bootstrap instead of ignoring it? (It builds perfectly for Python 2.7 included in macOS.)