Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1

Subject: Re: [boost] [Boost-users] [release] Boost 1.70.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1
From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-09 14:57:07

Tom Kent wrote:
> >> I'm having a problem with B2 in this release.
> >>
> >> For many releases now, I have run a command such as:
> >> b2 -j16 --build-type=complete toolset=msvc-10.0 address-model=64 
> >> architecture=x86 --prefix="./" --libdir=lib32-msvc-10.0 --includedir=temp_inc 
> >> install
> >>
> >> to get the windows builds of each toolset. For the install, I set the 
> >> prefix as the current directory, so that I'll get a 
> >> lib{arch}-msvc-{ver} directory for each toolset in there. However, with 
> >> this 1.70 release, it seems to ignore my prefix and put the headers in 
> >> libs/headers/build/temp_inc/boost-1_70/boost, instead of 
> >> temp_inc/boost-1_70/boost. For the libraries, it scattered them 
> >> throughout the build in directories such as 
> >> libs/coroutine/build/lib32-msvc-10.0/.
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on what might be causing this?

My guess would be the relative paths. I can look into this, but it's 
probably too late for 1.70 to make changes.