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

From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2020-04-24 20:42:33

On Fri, Apr 24, 2020 at 10:50 AM Marshall Clow <mclow.lists_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

>
>
> 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?
>

I initially thought this might be in the compiler, but upon further
investigation I think it is a problem with b2.

When the hang happens, there are no cl.exe instances, just b2.

I also saw it happen in msvc-14.2, again in/after wave:
 common.copy
D:\ReleaseBuild\boost_1_73_0\lib32-msvc-14.2\cmake\boost_test_exec_monitor-1.73.0\libboost_test_exec_monitor-variant-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73-static.cmake
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\test\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\libboost_test_exec_monitor-variant-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73-static.cmake
        1 file(s) copied.
compile-c-c++
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_re2c_lexer_str.obj
instantiate_re2c_lexer_str.cpp
compile-c-c++
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threading-multi\instantiate_re2c_lexer.obj
instantiate_re2c_lexer.cpp
msvc.archive
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\libboost_wave-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73.lib
boost-install.generate-cmake-variant-
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\libboost_wave-variant-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73-static.cmake
common.copy
D:\ReleaseBuild\boost_1_73_0\lib32-msvc-14.2\cmake\boost_wave-1.73.0\libboost_wave-variant-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73-static.cmake
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\libboost_wave-variant-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73-static.cmake
        1 file(s) copied.
common.copy
D:\ReleaseBuild\boost_1_73_0\lib32-msvc-14.2\libboost_wave-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73.lib
D:\ReleaseBuild\bin.v2\boost\bin.v2\libs\wave\build\msvc-14.2\release\link-static\runtime-link-static\threadapi-win32\threading-multi\libboost_wave-vc142-mt-s-x32-1_73.lib
        1 file(s) copied.

Running this command:
b2 -j%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS% --without-mpi
--build-dir=D:\ReleaseBuild/bin.v2 --stage-libdir=lib32-msvc-14.2
--build-type=complete toolset=msvc-14.2 address-model=32 architecture=x86
stage