I figured out that it was actually a bug in boost v1.43 apparently.
I found this thread
http://old.nabble.com/Boost-1.43---Exception-before-main%28%29-is-called-td28536505.html
which led me to install the trunk version of boost and the problem went
away.
Posting this for any googler's out there.
I am getting a boost exception when I try to import my project linked with
boost python. It occurs in the python _init method so I am pretty sure it
has something to do with boost python. I get this exception:
terminate called after throwing an instance of
'boost::exception_detail::clone_impl'
