From ed70e0b9646747da62e995f631e0fcfd8e1a6193 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Trull <edaskel@att.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:37:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Build tests in release mode

We are seeing some weird failures in CI in Windows builds related
to PDB files. Maybe this will help.
---
 test/build/Jamfile.v2 | 12 ++++++------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/test/build/Jamfile.v2 b/test/build/Jamfile.v2
index 1e860f09..706ee4f9 100644
--- a/test/build/Jamfile.v2
+++ b/test/build/Jamfile.v2
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ test-suite wave
             :
             # requirements
                 <threading>multi
-                <variant>debug
+                <variant>release
                 <link>shared:<define>BOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK=1
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ test-suite wave
             : 
             # requirements
                 <threading>multi
-                <variant>debug
+                <variant>release
                 <link>static     # Linking to DLL tested by testwave_dll
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ test-suite wave
             :
             # requirements
                 <threading>multi
-                <variant>debug
+                <variant>release
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
             :
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ test-suite wave
             :
             # requirements
                 <threading>multi
-                <variant>debug
+                <variant>release
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
             :
@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ test-suite wave
             :
             # requirements
                 <threading>multi
-                <variant>debug
+                <variant>release
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 # to generate wave_lexertl_tables_next_token.hpp:
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ test-suite wave
             :
             # requirements
                 <threading>multi
-                <variant>debug
+                <variant>release
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_SCL_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
                 <toolset>msvc:<define>_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
             :

From 459a951d609990ffb0f181303a5a1dd346bf8fdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Trull <edaskel@att.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:07:30 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] CI: Only build "release" variants for all targets

CI takes long enough as it is and I don't believe we gain much by
building both debug and release.
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 24509eb0..25fc2b86 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ jobs:
     with:
       enable_reflection: true
       b2_targets: libs/wave/test libs/wave/tool/build libs/wave/samples
+      b2_variant: release
       enable_cmake: false
       depinst_args: --include tool --include samples                       # fetch tool and sample dependencies
       enable_mingw: false                                                  # fails on non-ASCII test filename