Building boost

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I wanted to build the boost-python library for python 3; so make sure you have python 3 and it's developer package installed


    sudo yum install python3

    sudo yum install python3-devel

I got python 3.2. However, the headers are installed to /usr/include/python3.2u, whereas boost looks for the headers in <installdir>/python3.2

To work around this I created a symbolic link:

    sudo ln -s python3.2mu python3.2

Other dependencies I didn't have:

    sudo yum install zlib-devel

    sudo yum install bzip2-devel

In the boost source dir:

    ./bootstrap.sh --with-python=python3 --prefix=/usr

    ./b2

    sudo ./b2 install

If you want versioned names you need to pass --layout=versioned to b2

    ./b2 --layout=versioned --with-regex debug threading=multi link=static