Re: [boost] [1.39.0] Ready for beta?

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.39.0] Ready for beta?
From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-04-22 23:43:26

Beman Dawes wrote:
> I've gotten badly sidetracked by non-Boost work, but would like to get 
> the 1.39.0 beta out tomorrow if at all possible.
> 
> Are there any known showstoppers?
> 
> If anyone has a few spare minutes, it would help if they could download 
> one of the current release snapshots from http://boost.cowic.de/rc/, 
> browse around and report any problems spotted.

Seems like bootstrap.bat is busted:

C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22>.\bootstrap.bat

C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># Copyright (C) 
2009 Vladimir Prus
'#' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22>#
'#' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># Distributed 
under the Boost Software License
, Version 1.0.
'#' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># (See 
accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or ht
tp://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
'#' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
Building Boost.Jam build engine
The system cannot find the file specified.

If you want to put a comment in a DOS batch file, you use REM, not #. 
I'm a bit dismayed that this apparently got merged to release without 
even being tested.

I notice that later this script instructs the user to type "./bjam 
--help". Remember, this is a windows batch script. The command should be 
".\bjam --help" (note the forward slash).

Under cygwin, ./bootstrap.sh seems to build bjam successfully. The user 
is then instructed to type ./bjam --help to get command line help. This 
outputs:

Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12)
Boost.Jam 03.1.17

... and then bjam just hangs and pegs the CPU! Can somebody else 
corroborate?

I gave up testing after this except to click around in the docs. They 
look ok.

> Library authors who use Boostbook/Quickbook, but don't have time to look 
> at the full snapshot, might want to check 
> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/boost-docs.7z

Image links are broken in this docs-only archive (e.g. the link to 
boost.png and the links to the navigation icons). It probably doesn't 
matter though because the docs in the full archive are fine.

-- 
Eric Niebler
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com