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Installing boost 1.69

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, python
Domain
build-system, tooling

Research direction

The issue mentions installing Boost 1.69 alongside Python 3.8.6, with an error reporting Python 3.9 as an unknown feature value. Start by reproducing the Boost 1.69 installation and checking how the Python version is detected. Done means identifying whether the error is a configuration problem or a Boost compatibility issue and documenting the supported resolution.

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Description

Hey, I have installed boost 1.72, but I need boost 1.69 for ROS.

However when I try to install it I get an error saying:

error: "3.9" is not a known value of feature <python>
error: legal values: "3.8"

My python version is 3.8.6.

Can someone help my with this?

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