Re: [boost] [1.45.0] Release candidates available

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.45.0] Release candidates available
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-18 16:30:49

vicente.botet wrote:

> http://viboes.blogspot.com/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rene Rivera" <grafikrobot_at_[hidden]>
> To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [boost] [1.45.0] Release candidates available
> 
> 
>> 
>> On 11/17/2010 2:03 PM, vicente.botet wrote:
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Beman Dawes"<bdawes_at_[hidden]>
>>> To: "Boost Developers List"<boost_at_[hidden]>
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 6:49 PM
>>> Subject: [boost] [1.45.0] Release candidates available
>>>
>>>
>>>> See http://boost.cowic.de/rc/
>>>>
>>>> Please download the file for your favorite platform, try a build, and
>>>> let us know if it works OK. We like some independent confirmation
>>>> before pushing the files up to SourceForge.
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I know that this is an old toolset, but I use it to check with an old gcc compiler.
>>>
>>> cygwin-1.5 gcc-3.4
>>> =============
>>> There is a bjam ERROR and it stops.
>>>
>>>> cd /boost/v45
>>>> bjam
>> 
>> Did you build bjam from the sources included in the RC?
> 
> Non. I will try it.
> Do you mean that we need to update the bjam version when we update the Boost version? Is this
> written somewhere?

The official procedure to build each release is:

        ./bootstrap.sh
        ./bjam

If you're using system-wide bjam, you should be prepared that eventually, it will cease
to work. There will be better checking and reporting of required version in future.

- Volodya