id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 3554 PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords and deprecated conversion to char* mloskot Dave Abrahams "Building current trunk (r57126) with GCC 4.4.1 it throws the following warnings : {{{ gcc.compile.c++ bin.v2/libs/python/build/gcc-4.4.1/release/link-static/threading-multi/object/class.o libs/python/src/object/class.cpp: In function ‘int boost::python::property_init(PyObject*, PyObject*, PyObject*)’: libs/python/src/object/class.cpp:79: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ libs/python/src/object/class.cpp:79: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ libs/python/src/object/class.cpp:79: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ libs/python/src/object/class.cpp:79: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to ‘char*’ }}} The problem is caused not by Boost itself, but it's a Python problem that has been discussed here: * [http://bugs.python.org/issue1772673 Issue 1772673: Replacing char* with const char*] * [http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-February/060689.html Baffled by PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords modification] However, when Python is fixed it seems to be a good idea to fix the Boost.Python too. Environment: Linux Ubuntu 9.10 (64-bit), GCC 4.4.1, Python 2.6.4rc2 " Bugs closed python USE GITHUB Boost Development Trunk Problem duplicate