Re: New Boost.Build regression/failure

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-02-08 17:21:15

On Fri, Feb 5, 2021 at 3:12 PM Andrey Semashev via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 2/3/21 10:08 PM, René Ferdinand Rivera Morell via Boost wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 12:51 PM Peter Dimov via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> John Maddock wrote:
> >>
> >>> This:
> >>>
> >>
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/jzmaddock/config/builds/37592647/job/l6ogy7rl9n0gvl91
> >>>
> >>> Has just started failing.  Any ideas anyone?
> >>
> >> This worked for me locally before I updated tools/build, then started
> >> failing with the above. I suppose this the change that caused it:
> >>
> >> commit 95c875b1dd12a52f0d120480c8b498c9c3da36ab (HEAD, origin/develop,
> >>      Remove fixed list of configure relevant features.
> >>
> >
> > Could be. Although I find it weird that the boostcpp module has recursive
> > configuration checks. Because if it is.. It should really not do that.
>
> I've created a ticket:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/build/issues/709

You read the root of the problem and resolution on that ticket. But the end
result is that this is now fixed / worked around.

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