Beman Dawes wrote:
I've gotten badly sidetracked by non-Boost work, but would like to get the 1.39.0 beta out tomorrow if at all possible.
Are there any known showstoppers?
If anyone has a few spare minutes, it would help if they could download one of the current release snapshots from http://boost.cowic.de/rc/, browse around and report any problems spotted.
Seems like bootstrap.bat is busted: C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22>.\bootstrap.bat C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># Copyright (C) 2009 Vladimir Prus '#' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># '#' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># Distributed under the Boost Software License , Version 1.0. '#' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. C:\boost\org\1.39-alpha-full\boost-windows-2009-04-22># (See accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or ht tp://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt) '#' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. Building Boost.Jam build engine The system cannot find the file specified. If you want to put a comment in a DOS batch file, you use REM, not #. I'm a bit dismayed that this apparently got merged to release without even being tested. I notice that later this script instructs the user to type "./bjam --help". Remember, this is a windows batch script. The command should be ".\bjam --help" (note the forward slash). Under cygwin, ./bootstrap.sh seems to build bjam successfully. The user is then instructed to type ./bjam --help to get command line help. This outputs: Boost.Build V2 (Milestone 12) Boost.Jam 03.1.17 ... and then bjam just hangs and pegs the CPU! Can somebody else corroborate? I gave up testing after this except to click around in the docs. They look ok.
Library authors who use Boostbook/Quickbook, but don't have time to look at the full snapshot, might want to check http://boost.cowic.de/rc/boost-docs.7z
Image links are broken in this docs-only archive (e.g. the link to boost.png and the links to the navigation icons). It probably doesn't matter though because the docs in the full archive are fine. -- Eric Niebler BoostPro Computing http://www.boostpro.com