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: Robert (r.firl_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-16 16:32:58

On 11/16/2018 7:20 AM, Tom Kent via Boost wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018, 12:05 AM degski via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]
> wrote:
> 
>> 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).
>>
> 
> I was able to build with 15.9 without any issues. See the end of the log
> here:
> https://gist.github.com/teeks99/b59b073cdf08f08d5fd6d170721c92ca
> 
> That was an upgrade from 15.8, on a machine with other versions of
> VS....could either of those things be mitigating factors?

I am thinking probably not.  The file and directory locations for the 
Visual Studio 2017 versions (e.g. compiler 14.1) are totally different 
than the older releases.

So all here know, there is already an update to the Visual Studio 15.9.0 
to 15.9.1.  The size of the update is on the order of 4 GB.  I have no 
idea what makes it so large.  The official release notes are not giving 
a whole lot of guidance for the download size increase.  Also, after 
applying the 15.9.1 in the last ten minutes, I have to restart my 
computer.  Almost all previous Visual Studio updates do not require this.

Sincerely,

Robert

> 
> Tom
> 
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