Re: Windows Regression Runners - Failing on Develop

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-09-27 23:06:39

Tom Kent wrote:
> Starting sometime between 3am and 5pm on September 11, 2023, all the
> windows regression runners started failing on the develop branch.
> 
> Master branch runners on the same VM are still doing fine (
> https://www.boost.org/development/tests/master/developer/summary.html)
> .
> 
> The output doesn't have anything jump out at me. Nor were there any
> commits
> to the develop branch in that window that seem suspicious to me.
> 
> The regression run output ends with:
> ...found 1 target...

[...]

> With the full output available here:
> https://gist.github.com/teeks99/bb4230f6a1efdd7af11bd93341c950bf
> 
> Any ideas on this would be much appreciated.

According to the log, the script tries to build process_jam_log.exe using
msvc-10.0.

Since process_jam_log depends on Boost.Filesystem, which now requires
C++11, the build silently fails.