Re: Develop Regression Tests Failing

From: Gavin Lambert (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-05-26 02:40:18

On 26/05/2021 2:17 pm, Peter Dimov wrote:
> 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.

Doesn't that mean that the python PR should not have been merged yet, 
since it depends on something not yet in Boost?  (And probably the build 
PR shouldn't have been closed until it was merged to Boost either.)