On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 11:08:41AM +0000, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On Sat, 21 Feb 2026 at 10:31, Richard W.M. Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > > I got a bit further, but got stuck at this useless error message: > > > > ...failed updating 0 target... > > > > As you mentioned before, the build system is ... peculiar. Apparently > > the above is a known issue with b2, mentioned here, but I don't > > understand what the fix involves: > > > > https://github.com/conan-io/conan-center-index/issues/27607 > > Please don't make me look at b2 errors ... please don't make me look > at b2 errors ... please don't ...
I'm slightly in awe that it takes the (presumably) useful and informative error message being printed by i686-w64-mingw32-g++, and replaces it with a completely rubbish message that isn't even grammatical. That took them effort to do! I had a fiddle around with the mingw-boost patch, and could make bits of it apply, however that didn't fix the problem :-( Rich. > This is probably due to the commented-out boost-mingw.patch patch > file, which hacks in a hardcoded binary_format=pe and abi=ms result in > the build system. That patch needs to be rewritten to do that > properly, because hardcoding those changes into the sources will > completely break the native build. > > Alternatively, the patch could be manually applied to the ../win32 and > ../win64 copies of the source tree, so that it doesn't affect the > sources used for the native build. > > But the patch doesn't currently apply to the sources at all, so > somebody needs to figure out how to achieve the same result in the > current build config. And ideally, do it cleanly and then submit that > upstream. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming and virtualization blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into KVM guests. http://libguestfs.org/virt-v2v -- _______________________________________________ mingw mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
