Re: [release] Boost 1.85.0 Release Candidate 3 is available

From: tobi_at_[hidden]
Date: 2024-04-13 19:00:28

> Am 2024-04-11 23:31, schrieb Marshall Clow via Boost:
>> The third release candidates for the 1.85.0 release are now available 
>> at:
>> <https://boostorg.jfrog.io/artifactory/main/release/1.85.0/source/>
>> 
>> The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
>> 
>> e712fe7eb1b9ec37ac25102525412fb4d74e638996443944025791f48f29408a	boost_1_85_0_rc3.zip
>> 7009fe1faa1697476bdc7027703a2badb84e849b7b0baad5086b087b971f8617	boost_1_85_0_rc3.tar.bz2
>> 16d16b9658753117c1434e5450c5eac194957f4b6d0b390b9d07900d37c115a4	boost_1_85_0_rc3.7z
>> be0d91732d5b0cc6fbb275c7939974457e79b54d6f07ce2e3dfdd68bef883b0b	boost_1_85_0_rc3.tar.gz
>> 
>> The changes from RC1 are:
>> 
>> * Boost.ASIO docs generate very long file names that are not usable on 
>> Windows.
>> * Boost.Program options does not build in C++23 mode on clang truck 
>> (to be clang 19 before boost 1.86.0 is released)
>> 	Note: It is possible that this is a bug in clang, and it’s in a clang 
>> that is not released yet.
>> * Boost.Log has some broken links in its documentation.
>> * A meaningless change to Boost.Array (add a space to a test file)
>> 
>> Apparently the RC2 tarballs were mis-buiilt; some of them were missing 
>> the required changes.
>> I believe that RC3 resolves that problem.
>> 
>> As always, the release managers would appreciate it if you download 
>> the
>> candidate of your choice and give building it a try. Please report 
>> both
>> success and failure, and anything else that is noteworthy.
>> 
>> -- The Release managers
>> 
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Am 2024-04-13 18:12, schrieb Tobias Loew via Boost:
> I got errors building msvc 14.3 with VS 2022 17.10 (preview).
> 
> The error is (in tools/build/src/tools/msvc.jam, line 1140) due to not 
> recognizing the runtime library version of msvc which starts with 14.40 
> (no longer 14.3x, but it's still toolset v143).
> I made a PR to Boost.Build develop branch which fixes it.
> 
> https://github.com/boostorg/build/pull/771
> 
> Btw: this is also a problem for older Boost releases, which won't build 
> with VS 2022 17.10 or newer.
> 
> Tobias
> 
> 

Here are the same changes again to the correct reop:
https://github.com/bfgroup/b2/pull/372