Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.69.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2

Subject: Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.69.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 2
From: degski (degski_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-15 07:12:40

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 00:50, Marshall Clow via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> The release candidates for the second 1.69.0 beta release are now available
> at:
>
> <https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.69.0.beta1.rc2/source/>
>
> The release notes are not yet final.
>
> The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
>
> 77827b25121159a4e65cfbdf19713e2d589fce267fd6f08615a453d24753c9d3
> ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc2.7z
> ea05c6e01c856369afdab1f6c075e06fb0f965ab1c247f753ed5c951a9db4e71
> ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc2.tar.bz2
> b393a73cf084be716c40ef346cfacb1c95e7b14637e8385eeeb50774dd0b99ed
> ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc2.tar.gz
> 74c0c0a19a700fee2b4f434bb7df50840642e3c35924e85864b278bd519af062
> ./boost_1_69_0_b1_rc2.zip
>
> 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.
>

I have tried to build with VC-15.9 (yesterday's update) and I hit the
following:

don't know how to make <p/C:/boost>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx64\vcvarsall.bat
...skipped
<pc:\boost-build\boost\bin.v2\standalone\msvc\msvc-15.9>msvc-setup.read for
lack of <p/C:/boost>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023\bin\Hostx64\vcvarsall.bat...
common.mkdir c:\boost-build\boost

after which everything fails of course, which is unsurprising as
vcvarsall.bat is now located at "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat"

I don't know why, how or what, but that's what I see. b2 builds, but that's
because I'm building from a dev-prompt.

Clang also fails [using lld-link.exe] as apparently Peter's fixes are not
merged to master [yet]. I presume the above issue will rear its head as
well, after that as this appears to be unrelated to boost.

degski
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