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B2 fails to use quoted path invocation for the archiver program.

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walbourn

boost fail to be detected / No 'bootstrap.jam' was found by searching for / file STRINGS file "/usr/include/boost/version.hpp" cannot be read.

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I try to install qbittorent that requires boost library. I tried to install boost from source successfully (1.83) ``` sudo ./bootstrap.sh --prefix=/usr/local and sudo ./b2 install --prefix=/usr/local ``` then... in...

estatistics

b2-engine target should build b2 first

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Also fixes stage/install not installing b2.pdb. Maybe I misunderstood and it installs bootstraped executable for a good reason?

Kojoley

Intel compiler detection in Windows seems not to work with the latest release.

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jrmoore

bootstrap fails on gcc-8.3

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``` jan.wilmans@HAMILTON246{~/home/project/b2}: ./bootstrap.sh Building the B2 engine.. ### ### ### Using 'cxx' toolset. ### ### cpp (Debian 8.3.0-6) 8.3.0 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software;...

janwilmans

Python gets detected correctly but the Header File pyconfig.h can not be found - MSYS2 MinGW-w64 10.2.0

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MeerMusik

Response files issues and long path support

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1. `response-file=auto` doesn't always use response files when it should, it probably does not count the compiler path in estimation? 2. A resulting path still can exceed the limits and...

Kojoley

`%~dp0` is wrong in `SHELL \"script\"` (correct in `SHELL script`)

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Kojoley

Option to turn down verbosity

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h-vetinari

ver | ms | % -----:|----|---- main | 190 | 133% 4.9.6 | 190 | 133% 4.9.0 | 190 | 133% 4.8.2 | 174 | 122% 4.8.0 | 174 |...

Kojoley