Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.67.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.67.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1
From: Oliver Kowalke (oliver.kowalke_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-11 15:02:16

2018-03-11 14:50 GMT+01:00 Daniel James via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>:

> On 11 March 2018 at 12:39, Tom Kent via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> >
> > I got a huge number of Build errors for msvc-8.0 through msvc-12.0, all
> in
> > the context library.
>
> It isn't good that we only find these errors in release candidates. Is
> it possible for the testers to do a binary build before running the
> tests? The test system doesn't catch these errors as the tests only
> run for compilers with the necessary C++11 features.
>

msvc-7 + msvc+8 are excluded from building boost.context
the unit-tests are OK, msvc-12 does not compile .... the exception is
teeks99-08-m-win2012R2-32on64 where the check-library fails at runtime

>
> > Did
> > something change from 1.66? This wasn't an issue then.
>
> It looks like execution_context used to have checks for
> BOOST_CONTEXT_NO_CXX11, but they were removed. So it would build okay
> without C++11, but I'm not sure why that would be needed.
>

BOOST_CONTEXT_NO_CXX11 is only for supporting boost.coroutine