Re: [Boost-build] [boost] Missing winerror.h for MSVC-9

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] [boost] Missing winerror.h for MSVC-9
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-02-04 21:40:26

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Andrey Semashev <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]
> wrote:

> On 12/07/16 06:36, Tom Kent wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Andrey Semashev <
>> andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 11/16/16 15:17, Andrey Semashev wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/16/16 15:08, Tom Kent wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Tom Kent <teeks99_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Sorry I didn't respond sooner, I must have missed that message on the
>>>>>
>>>>>> list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> As best I can tell, something is corrupt on the msvc-9.0 install on
>>>>>> that
>>>>>> VM. All the other runs on that VM (teeks99-09*) are using the same
>>>>>> base
>>>>>> repo to clone off of, so it isn't something in the boost filesystem.
>>>>>> If
>>>>>> you're looking for other msvc-9.0 results, see teeks99-08b. It
>>>>>> *should* be
>>>>>> the identical configuration, but appears not to have this problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The MSVC-15 issue is known, I believe we are waiting for a build of
>>>>>> B2 in
>>>>>> develop that supports msvc-15.0 - Preview 5.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I just wiped the VM and started with a fresh image, this should be
>>>>>>
>>>>> better
>>>>> now.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks, I can see the tests are turning green.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I think, the problem has returned. I'm seeing the same kind of failures
>>> on
>>> teeks99-09b-win2012R2-64on64:
>>>
>>> http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/out
>>> put/teeks99-09b-win2012R2-64on64-boost-bin-v2-libs-log-test-
>>> src_logger_assignable-test-msvc-9-0-dbg-adrs-mdl-64-thrd-mlt.html
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, interesting. I had just added the Visual Studio 2017 RC back on to
>> that machine, apparently that does something to break Visual Studio
>> 2008???
>> I need to look into this, but now sure when I'll be able to or what I will
>> be able to find.
>>
>
> So, any progress about this?
>
> Would it be possible to move unreleased compilers to a separate
> environment?
>
>
After further investigating this (sorry it took so long), it doesn't appear
to be an issue with the visual studio install, as far as I can tell.

For those just joining the thread (I've CCed boost-build list), a while
back we noticed that my teeks99-02b (msvc-9.0) run was failing nearly every
test in the regression matrix (at least those that had any windows.h
dependency). At first I had no idea why, so I reloaded the VM from a
previous image (this image includes msvc-8.0 through msvc-14.0), after the
re-load everything was good for a while.
A few weeks later, I installed the new Visual Studio 2017 RC (i.e.
msvc-15.0, I believe?) and immediately the msvc-9.0 build started to fail
again, in the same  manner. At this point I remembered that I *had*
installed an early beta of Visual Studio 2017 on the VM previously, which
in hind-site was also causing the earlier problems.

Today, I spent a little time on the VM trying to determine what was broken
about the msvc-9.0 install. And my conclusion is that nothing is wrong and
it is working fine! All the projects that I attempted to build with it went
fine.

Thus, I'm adding boost-build to the list, because I believe that there is
something in our build configuration that is causing the problem. I'm not
sure how to start debugging this however, so I was hoping for some pointers
from those with more experience in boost-build. I believe that Visual
Studio 2017 is going to be released next week, so it would be nice to get
rid of this regression before then.

I've got the build log from a teeks99-02b run here:
https://gist.github.com/teeks99/29866e0b99b9863f3017ab898a2afd19#file-build_output-log

I also have a copy of the results-bjam.log file, but it is too big to put
into the gist.

Thanks,
Tom