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: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-03-09 15:22:31

On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 6:57 AM Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> 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.
>

My initial thought is that this would be good to get fixed for the 1.70
release, but it's not worth holding up the beta for.
Comments?

-- Marshall