Re: [boost] b2 headers is unreliable on 1.56 on Windows

Subject: Re: [boost] b2 headers is unreliable on 1.56 on Windows
From: Niall Douglas (s_sourceforge_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-07-30 12:21:52

On 30 Jul 2014 at 18:09, Jürgen Hunold wrote:

> > Anyone else found that b2 headers in 1.56 randomly misses things to
> > hard link on Windows?
> 
> Already reported by Eric in
> 
> http://lists.boost.org/Archives/boost/2014/07/215266.php

Oh good.

> I send this to the Boost.Build mailing list too.
> As 1.56.0 should come with pregenerated headers, this should not be a 
> showstopper.

It is for anyone with a library in the review queue :(

In our documentation we're going to have to ask people installing our 
library as an additional Boost module to repeatedly do b2 headers 
until it doesn't error out.

It also creates problems for those running CIs for per-commit 
testing, because the CI needs to bootstrap the test code into Boost 
and do b2 headers to update. I've already seen problems with my CI 
testing Boost.Thread on Windows due to this, it currently randomly 
fails due to wrong or missing headers.

Niall

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