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: Daniel James (dnljms_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-03-11 15:02:42

On 11 March 2018 at 14:14, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Daniel James wrote:
>>
>> 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?
>
>
> That's what check_build does:
>
> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/master/developer/check_build.html

That's useful, although perhaps a bit obscure. Ideally we want to
build the libraries exactly as the user does. If there's a problem
with the super project's jamfiles would that catch it?