Re: [Boost-build] MacOS Lion and Xcode 4

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] MacOS Lion and Xcode 4
From: Ian Emmons (iemmons_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-10-25 10:24:10

On Oct 25, 2011, at 4:45 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 25, 2011 08:03:45 Rene Rivera wrote:
>> On 10/24/2011 12:15 PM, Ian Emmons wrote:
>>> On Oct 12, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>> On 10/12/2011 7:36 AM, Ian Emmons wrote:
>>>>> Does Boost.Build work with the new version of Xcode for MacOS
>>>>> Lion (10.7)?
>>>> 
>>>> The version that is in trunk does. I use it daily, and recently
>>>> made some minor changes to the darwin.jam tool for the latest
>>>> released Xcode (not the betas yet).
>>> 
>>> Thanks, that's great to hear.  I can use that as a temporary fix for
>>> a while.  But my users will require this in a released version of
>>> Boost.  When do you expect that this would find its way into a Boost
>>> release?  For instance, will it be included in Boost 1.48.0?
>> 
>> Usually all BBv2 changes make it to the next posted release. I'll have
>> to check specifically though if the release branch has the change.. Hm,
>> the changes aren't on the release yet..
>> 
>> Volodya, what's the plan for merging bbv2 trunk to release?
> 
> I did not actually plan to merge anything, since I did not know about
> any important fixes. I support I can do check with Beman and merge
> to release branch if you post me to the patches you want to see
> there.

Volodya, I (and I suspect many Macintosh folks) would be pleased to see these changes appear in the next release.  Without them, it is difficult to use Boost oon the new version of MacOS (10.7, a.k.a. Lion).

Thanks for your efforts,

Ian