tests fail due to missing type converter for boost::shared_ptr<openravepy::PyInterfaceBase>

[morxa]

If I run test/run_tests.py, many tests fail with an error similar to the following:

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ERROR: test_global.test_global.tutorialexample('../docs/source/tutorials/openravepy_examples/using_link_statistics',)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/nose/case.py", line 197, in runTest
    self.test(*self.arg)
  File "/home/till/code/openrave/test/test_global.py", line 37, in __call__
    module=imp.load_module(modulename, fp, pathname, description)
  File "/home/till/code/openrave/test/../docs/source/tutorials/openravepy_examples/using_link_statistics.py", line 8, in <module>
    robot = env.GetRobots()[0] # get the first robot
TypeError: No to_python (by-value) converter found for C++ type: boost::shared_ptr<openravepy::PyInterfaceBase>

I'm using Fedora 24 with

• Boost 1.60
• Python 2.7.12
• GCC 6.1.1
• python2-coverage 4.2
• python2-nose 1.3.7

I tested this on commit 8bfb8a6 and 30baaa6, the issue is the same.

[morxa]

This is a boost issue and has been fixed, see boostorg/python#56. A fix in Fedora is currently pending for Fedora 24, see this bug report