On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 10:21 AM Marshall Clow
The release candidates for the first 1.70.0 beta release are now available at:
https://dl.bintray.com/boostorg/beta/1.70.0.beta.1.rc1/source/
The release notes are not yet available.
The SHA256 checksums are as follows:
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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.
I have built the RC on Mac OS X 10.11 using Apple LLVM version 8.0.0 (clang-800.0.42.1) successfully while specifying c++03/11/14/1z I have built the RC on Mac OS X 10.14 using Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.10.44.4) successfully while specifying c++03/11/14, but failed when specifying c++17/2a, because the Python 2.7 headers shipped with Mac OS 10.14 use the "register" keyword: In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/Python.h:85: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/unicodeobject.h:534:5: error: ISO C++17 does not allow 'register' storage class specifier [-Wregister] register PyObject *obj, /* Object */ ^~~~~~~~~ I have built the RC on Mac OS X 10.14 using a recent trunk build of clang (version 9.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git 881e83d8b94f1997de674ed8ff382a73a29a719d)) successfully while specifying c++03/11/14, but failed when specifying c++17/2a, because the Python 2.7 headers shipped with Mac OS 10.13 use the "register" keyword: In file included from /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/Python.h:85: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/include/python2.7/unicodeobject.h:534:5: error: ISO C++17 does not allow 'register' storage class specifier [-Wregister] register PyObject *obj, /* Object */ ^~~~~~~~~ (same results as with Apple's clang) I have built the RC on Ubuntu 18.14 with gcc 7.3.2 successfully while specifying c++03/11/14, but failed when specifying c++17/2a, because the Python 2.7 headers shipped with 18.04 use the "register" keyword: In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:88: /usr/include/python2.7/unicodeobject.h:534:5: warning: 'register' storage class specifier is deprecated and incompatible with C++17 [-Wdeprecated-register] register PyObject *obj, /* Object */ ^~~~~~~~~ and I had the same results with a recently built version of clang on Ubuntu (success on 03/11/14, but python failures with 17/2a) -- Marshall