Problem with building Boost Graph Library Python bindings under Leopard

Question

I've inherited some Python code which is importing boost.graph and I'm having an issue setting up the following under Mac OS X Leopard (I believe this is what I need to install to get it working):

http://osl.iu.edu/~dgregor/bgl-python/

According to the readme I need to build with bjam, but I see the following error:

[matt@imac ~/Downloads/bgl-python-0.9]$ bjam
error: Could not find parent for project at '.'
error: Did not find Jamfile or project-root.jam in any parent directory.

I'm running a full Macports stack of python25, boost, boost-jam, boost-build.

I don't have any experience with building using bjam. Can anyone offer any help?

Answer 1

This error suggests the project is not a standalone, and is meant to be put inside the Boost source tree.