vcpkg depend-info broken as it cannot find vcpkgTools.xml

[rtzoeller]

Describe the bug
A recent change (likely #43209) seems to have broken vcpkg depend-info.

Previously I could run ../vcpkg/vcpkg depend-info --overlay-ports=. my-package-name and get a list of dependencies for my package, whereas now I get

$ ../vcpkg/vcpkg depend-info --overlay-ports=. my-package-name
read_contents("/home/rzoeller/my-repo/vcpkg/scripts/vcpkgTools.xml"): No such file or directory

Environment

• OS: AlmaLinux 9.5
• Compiler: clang version 18.1.8 (AlmaLinux OS Foundation 18.1.8-3.el9)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

$ ../vcpkg/vcpkg depend-info boost-cmake
read_contents("/home/rzoeller/my-repo/vcpkg/scripts/vcpkgTools.xml"): No such file or directory

Expected behavior

$ ../vcpkg/vcpkg depend-info boost-cmake
boost-uninstall: 
vcpkg-boost: 
vcpkg-cmake: 
vcpkg-cmake-config: 
boost-cmake: boost-uninstall, vcpkg-boost, vcpkg-cmake, vcpkg-cmake-config

Additional context
This is breaking https://github.com/abumq/licensepp.

[rtzoeller]

I think this is a caching thing.... it might be necessary to fully git clean -ffdx the vcpkg directory when switching to before/after the linked PR.

[LilyWangLL]

Thanks for posting this issue, please run command git pull and ./bootstrap-vcpkg.sh to update your vcpkg.

[rtzoeller]

Should we be re-bootstrapping each time we update the vpckg repo?

[LilyWangLL]

After the PR for updating vcpkg-tool is merged, you need to re-bootstrapping.

[Neumann-A]

Should we be re-bootstrapping each time we update the vpckg repo?

Yes