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Subject: Re: [boost] Boost 1.63.0 Release Candidate 2
From: Paul A. Bristow (pbristow_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-12-24 08:59:04


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boost [mailto:boost-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Stephan T. Lavavej
> Sent: 23 December 2016 20:59
> To: boost_at_[hidden]
> Subject: Re: [boost] Boost 1.63.0 Release Candidate 2
>
> [Marshall Clow]
> > The second release candidate for the 1.63.0 release is now available at:
> > https://sourceforge.net/projects/boost/files/boost/1.63.0/
>
> > As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download
> > the candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report
> > both success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
>
> 1.63.0 RC2 successfully built for mingw-w64, without any workarounds.
> (Boost.Fiber is detecting my lack of std::mutex and simply not building,
> which is fine by me.)
>
> Notably, this is the first time that I've ever been able to build Boost
> without patches or workarounds. This is after bootstrap.sh was fixed for
> mingw-w64/msys2, Context/Coroutine/Coroutine2 were fixed to build for
> mingw-w64, and Python auto-detection started working again. Yay!

Yay! indeed!

Thanks for *your* contribution too.

Paul

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