OSX vpython-wx will still build without stage dependency links set up

[jimramberg]

I wonder if this may be an indication of a problem in the setup.py that nothing complained about the missing links

Please note that I have written: Homebrew/legacy-homebrew#29907
To have the boost homebrew modified to allow the user to supply the stage option.

[mwcraig]

I'm not sure that boost is the problem -- in my conda recipe (like a brew formula) I compile with ./b2 [some options] install

Not saying it is impossible this is the problem...but my suspicion currently is that it is wxpython-related.

[sspickle]

The links are not actually required. If you build boost to land in /usr/local/lib (as brew does) you don't actually need them at all since the linker will look there by default anyway. There was a different problem in setup.py (unnecessary addition of --framework flag) that has been fixed. You might try your build again now on brew (no dependency links) you may find it works.