Boost C++ Libraries: Ticket #6639: b2 --clean-all fails under Visual Studio 2008 and 2012

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:55:27 GMT

This issue is still present in Boost 1.50.0

Tested under Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Output:

C:\temp\boost_1_50_0>b2 --clean-all
Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
Performing configuration checks
    - has_icu builds           : no
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam
    - iconv (libc)             : no
    - iconv (separate)         : no
    - icu                      : no
    - icu (lib64)              : no
    - gcc visibility           : no
    - long double support      : yes
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
...found 1 target...
...updating 1 target...
...updated 1 target...
C:\temp\boost_1_50_0>

After cleanup, the boost_1_50_0/bin.v2 directory is still full of temporary files.

version changed

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 20:55:51 GMT

version Boost 1.49.0 → Boost 1.50.0

version, summary changed

Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:13:33 GMT

version Boost 1.50.0 → Boost 1.51.0
summary b2 --clean-all fails under Visual Studio 2008 and 2011 → b2 --clean-all fails under Visual Studio 2008 and 2012

Issue is still persistent under

Windows 7 SP1 x64
Visual Studio 2012
Boost 1.51.0

C:\temp\boost_1_49_0>b2 --clean-all
Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
Performing configuration checks
    - has_icu builds           : no
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam
    - iconv (libc)             : no
    - iconv (separate)         : no
    - icu                      : no
    - icu (lib64)              : no
    - ../config//has_gcc_visibility builds : no
    - ../config//has_long_double_support builds : yes
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
...found 1 target...
...updating 1 target...
...updated 1 target...
C:\temp\boost_1_49_0>

After that, the size of the bin.v2 directory is still 1.03GB, 1373 Files.

Steven Watanabe — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:44:10 GMT

I can't reproduce this with the trunk.

Steven Watanabe — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:08:02 GMT

Cannot reproduce with the release branch either.

Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:26:13 GMT

Tried again with Boost 1.52.0

ran Visual Studio 2008 Command Line
ran bootstrap.bat
ran b2 --toolset=msvc-9.0 -j%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%
moved boost_1_52_0\stage\lib to boost _1_52_0\lib

checked bin.v2 Directory: 1269 Files, 934.815.541 Bytes

ran b2 --clean-all:

Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
Performing configuration checks
    - 32-bit                   : yes
    - x86                      : yes
    - has_icu builds           : no
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam
    - iconv (libc)             : no
    - iconv (separate)         : no
    - icu                      : no
    - icu (lib64)              : no
    - gcc visibility           : no
    - long double support      : yes
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
warning: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration
note: failed.  See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html
note: for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to
note: suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets
...found 1 target...
...updating 1 target...
...updated 1 target...

checked bin.v2 Directory: 1281 Files, 934.891.007 Bytes

So it was even bigger after the clean attempt.

ran VS2012 x86 Native Tools Command Prompt
ran bootstrap.bat
ran b2 --toolset=msvc-11.0 -j%NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS%
moved boost_1_52_0\stage\lib to boost _1_52_0\lib

checked bin.v2 Directory: 1269 Files, 1.084.741.614 Bytes

ran b2 --clean-all:

Building the Boost C++ Libraries.
Performing configuration checks
    - 32-bit                   : yes
    - x86                      : yes
    - has_icu builds           : no
warning: Graph library does not contain MPI-based parallel components.
note: to enable them, add "using mpi ;" to your user-config.jam
    - iconv (libc)             : no
    - iconv (separate)         : no
    - icu                      : no
    - icu (lib64)              : no
    - gcc visibility           : no
    - long double support      : yes
warning: skipping optional Message Passing Interface (MPI) library.
note: to enable MPI support, add "using mpi ;" to user-config.jam.
note: to suppress this message, pass "--without-mpi" to bjam.
note: otherwise, you can safely ignore this message.
warning: No python installation configured and autoconfiguration
note: failed.  See http://www.boost.org/libs/python/doc/building.html
note: for configuration instructions or pass --without-python to
note: suppress this message and silently skip all Boost.Python targets
...found 1 target...
...updating 1 target...
...updated 1 target...

checked bin.v2 Directory: 1281 Files, 1.084.817.258 Bytes

Same result for 11.0 environment.

Steven Watanabe — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:25:18 GMT

You're not using --clean-all correctly.

The difference between clean and clean-all is that clean only deletes the top level targets to be built, while clean-all also cleans dependencies. --clean-all does /not/ clean all build variants. You need to specify the toolset for it to work.

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:43:34 GMT

You are right, apologies. I assumed --clean-all would indeed clean all build variants, or at least the last one built.

With

b2 --clean-all --toolset=msvc-9.0

only a few .log .rsp .cpp files remain in bin.v2.

Can be closed, thanks!

status changed; resolution set

viboes — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:09:17 GMT

status new → closed
resolution → invalid