Re: Boost test matrix

From: René Ferdinand Rivera Morell (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-11-03 16:07:57

On Fri, Nov 3, 2023 at 10:57 AM Peter Dimov via Boost
<boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
> René Ferdinand Rivera Morell wrote:
> > Yes, the testing scripts should be more reliably resilient. As for b2..
> >
> > (1) It can't be fixed in b2. As it's not possible for b2 to read
> > user's minds. Hence the existence of the multiple ways to tell b2 what
> > toolset to build with.
> >
> > (2) When we have the Boost modular arrangement it will be possible to
> > not use "b2 headers" at all. And hence that problem will be "fixed".
>
> The fact that the automatic header symlink generation works for normal
> targets and fails for targets passed to configure.builds leads me to think
> that there is a problem in b2 somewhere, but I have no idea what or where.

Unfortunately I have no idea either. As I did not write any of the
automatic header symlink generation. And, yes, there are almost
certainly one or more bugs in that.

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