Re: [boost] [1.41.0] Beta 1 release candidate

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.41.0] Beta 1 release candidate
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-11-03 10:43:21

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Vladimir Prus <vladimir_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Phil Richards wrote:
>
> > Beman Dawes wrote:
> >> 1.41.0 beta 1 release candidates are available at
> http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
> >>
> >> Before pushing the beta out to SourceForge, I'd appreciate it if
> >> several people would try the release candidate and report success or
> >> problems.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> --Beman
> >
> > Platform: Ubuntu 9.10 (x86)
> > Compiler: gcc 4.4.1
> >
> > Built successfully.
> > (Quite a lot of strict-aliasing rules warnings thrown up.)
> >
> >
> > However, I did notice that tools/regression/doc/library_status.html
> > refers to the script tools/regression/library_test_all
> >
> > This file doesn't exist: it is actually
> > tools/regression/src/library_test_all.sh
> >
> >
> > Tried to run tests, but ended up with lots of "bad variable name" errors
> > for LD_LIBRARY_PATH thrown up by dash (Ubuntu's /bin/sh).  Anybody come
> > across this before?
>
> Please use --debug-configuration and post the initial output. I did fix
> such an error before -- it could be that you're actually using system-wide
> Boost.Build. Or, alternatively, there could be a further bug -- while I
> am on Kubuntu, I don't use that
> incompatible-with-everything-brand-new-shell ;-)
> If that's a further bug, could you run with -n and post a single test run
> command?
>

Volodya, is this something we should hold the beta for, or can it wait until
the release?

Thanks,

--Beman