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: 2018-11-16 06:05:19

On Thu, 15 Nov 2018 at 20:48, Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:12 PM degski <degski_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Short answer - I don't care about this for the beta. (since the MSVC
> update happened yesterday), but it ought to be fixed for the 1.69.0 release.
>

I understand [that you don't care about something that happened the day
before]. Would indeed be nice to have it fixed, 15.9 is quite an update and
from what I understood from STL on reddit, the base for VC-16 (VS2019).

degski
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