Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.73.0 Release Candidate 1

From: Marshall Clow (mclow.lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-04-24 15:50:38

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 2:45 PM Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

>
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 8:53 AM Marshall Clow via Boost <
> boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> The first release candidates for the 1.73.0 release are now available at:
>>
>> <https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/release/1.73.0/source/>
>>
>> The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
>>
>> d2e7501bb04fe7abc09aa93f013ae997604286a882da1bd36ddd96ea1163ea71
>>  boost_1_73_0_rc1.7z
>> 4eb3b8d442b426dc35346235c8733b5ae35ba431690e38c6a8263dce9fcbb402
>>  boost_1_73_0_rc1.tar.bz2
>> 9995e192e68528793755692917f9eb6422f3052a53c5e13ba278a228af6c7acf
>>  boost_1_73_0_rc1.tar.gz
>> 0909a79524f857ef54570ceef8f397cc0629202532cc997785479c7c08bbc2a4
>>  boost_1_73_0_rc1.zip
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> I had four failures attempting to build on windows. However, they were
> atypical in that the build stalled out and would not continue, rather than
> producing an error.
>
> The last items in the terminal before stalling out was something like:
>
> D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.0\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\libboost_wave-variant-vc140-mt-s-x32-1_73-static.cmake
>         1 file(s) copied.
> common.copy
> D:\ReleaseBuild\boost_1_73_0\lib32-msvc-14.0\libboost_wave-vc140-mt-s-x32-1_73.lib
>
> D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.0\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\libboost_wave-vc140-mt-s-x32-1_73.lib
>         1 file(s) copied.
>
> It seemed to be generally in wave, however one time it failed in log. This
> example shows the problem during msvc-14.0, but I believe I also saw it in
> 14.1 one of the times. I had experienced something similar during the beta
> build, and after succeeding I was unable to reproduce it on the same
> computer, somehow related to caching? Very weird, and I don't think we
> should release while this is ongoing.
>

Tom --

Were these stalls in the tools (compiler, linker) or in the tests, or in
your sample programs?