Re: Reminder: The Master branch will be closing for the 1.77.0 release on WEDNESDAY 4-August

From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-08-02 23:57:34

On 8/2/21 11:49 PM, Marshall Clow wrote:
> On Aug 2, 2021, at 5:32 AM, Niall Douglas via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> On 02/08/2021 12:34, Tom Kent via Boost wrote:
>>
>>> However, the test matrix doesn't seem to have updated in months!?!?  Was
>>> this perhaps running on travis-ci and didn't get moved when they stopped
>>> running OSS jobs?
>>
>> I reported this to Slack #boost last week. The test matrix stopped
>> updating on 19th May. It's likely a cronjob which isn't firing any more.
>>
>> In any case, fixing it before we do a release would be super useful.
> 
> 
> My current theory is that this commit to filesystem caused the tools to stop building
> 	https://github.com/boostorg/filesystem/commit/88c2a2df8c23e28732bfab812261298064b94005
> 
> The docker image that the tools get run from doesn’t have “linux/magic.h”
> 
> More as we discover it.

I would like to know more about this issue. In particular, what Linux 
system lacks this file (distro, kernel version, etc.). Maybe, this is 
worth fixing before the release.