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Confusion about using Faber to Build #411

Open fishbotics opened 1 year ago

fishbotics commented 1 year ago

Hi,

I'm trying to build the library (Ubuntu 20.04, Python 3.7 installed from Deadsnakes, Boost installed from Aptitude). When I clone the repo and run Faber, the build seems to succeed.

When I run faber test.report, most of the tests pass. I get the following

test summary: 85 passes, 4 expected failures, 3 skipped

But, when I try to link against this from my other project--a project that uses the typical CMake search function--it can't find the library. Is there some install command I need to run in order to put the binary in the right place? Something similar to make install? I see the binary inside the repo at src/g++-9/x86_64/shared/libboost_python37.so

Thanks!

fishbotics commented 1 year ago

FWIW, I managed to make it work by manually copying the shared objects (Python and Numpy) into the system directory using:

cp ~/boost-python/src/g++-9/x86_64/shared/libboost_* /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
stefanseefeld commented 1 year ago

OK, thanks for that ! Perhaps it would be good to add an install target.