Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-08 22:06:20

On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 4:04 PM Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 1:37 PM Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:50 PM Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 12:25 PM <mike.dev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>>> I've run the plain .\bootstrap.bat + .\b2 on win10 x64 with VS2017
>>>> (v15.9.6).
>>>>
>>>> That compiled with a few warnings, but no errors.
>>>> However, when trying to run b2 from within the status directory, I get
>>>> the following error:
>>>>
>>>> error: Unable to find file or target named
>>>> error:
>>>>  '/C:/Users/<user-name>/Downloads/boost_1_70_0_b1_rc1/boost_1_70_0/libs/predef/test//C:\Users\<user-name>\Downloads\boost_1_70_0_b1_rc1\boost_1_70_0\libs\predef\include/boost/predef.h'
>>>> error: referred to from project at
>>>> error:     '.'
>>>
>>>
>>> I am seeing the same problem on Ubuntu w/gcc 7.3.2:
>>>
>>> error: Unable to find file or target named
>>> error:
>>>  '/Sources/Boost/smoke/boost_1_70_0/libs/predef/include/boost/predef.h'
>>> error: referred to from project at
>>> error:     '../libs/predef/test'
>>>
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>> It appears that the `include` directory is missing from `libs/predef`.
>> It also appears that predef is not the only library that this has
>> happened to.
>>
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> The lack of an `include` directory turns out to not be the problem.
>

It's by "design".. as in that's the way the monolithic release structure
works. It's a problem with my Predef jamfiles. Which I though I had dealt
with.. But well I guess I didn't :-(

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