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.)
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
does not work:
bootstrap.sh
seems to work as it detected the right Python root locationHowever,
b2
then reportsApparently, the Python 3 installer on macOS does not created
bin/python
, onlybin/python3
. Shouldn't it take into account the suggested name for the Python executable inbootstrap
instead of ignoring it? (It builds perfectly for Python 2.7 included in macOS.)