Re: [boost] [release] Boost 1.67.0 Beta 1 Release Candidate 1

On 11 March 2018 at 14:14, Peter Dimov via Boost wrote:

Daniel James wrote:

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On 11 March 2018 at 12:39, Tom Kent via Boost wrote:

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I got a huge number of Build errors for msvc-8.0 through msvc-12.0, all

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in the context library.

It isn't good that we only find these errors in release candidates. Is it possible for the testers to do a binary build before running the tests?

That's what check_build does:

http://www.boost.org/development/tests/master/developer/check_build.html

That's useful, although perhaps a bit obscure. Ideally we want to build the libraries exactly as the user does. If there's a problem with the super project's jamfiles would that catch it?