Re: Develop Regression Tests Failing

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-05-26 02:17:22

Tom Kent wrote:
> Since sometime yesterday, all the gcc/clang develop runners I maintain (not
> sure about Visual Studio, that machine has been down for updates) have been
> failing, before the tests suite can even start running. Master still looks good.
> 
> They end with the following:
>    - bzip2                    : yes [30]
>    - lzma                     : yes [30]
>    - zstd                     : no [30]
>    - lzma                     : yes (cached) [30]
>    - has_lzma_cputhreads builds : no [2]
>    - auto_ptr                 : yes [3]
> error: Unable to find file or target named
> error:     '/python//numpy'
> error: referred to from project at
> error:     '../libs/python/build'
> 
> 
> I believe this is because of the python (
> https://github.com/boostorg/python/pull/362) and build (
> https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/726) pull requests that were merged
> in around that time. The question is, why is this causing an issue...

This is because the Build change has only been merged to
https://github.com/bfgroup/b2, where the development has moved, and
is not yet in boostorg/build's develop branch.