Re: [boost] Linux regression test results

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-30 15:52:55

At 11:38 AM 12/30/2002, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >On Sunday 22 December 2002 20:09, David Abrahams wrote:
 >> Alkis Evlogimenos <alkis_at_[hidden]> writes:
 >> For those running regression tests (and most Boost.Build users), I
 >> really recommend setting ALL_LOCATE_TARGET so that the products of
 >> your build all go into a single directory tree that's not tangled into
 >> your source tree.  It makes it much easier, among other things, to
 >> blow away the old built files.
 >
 >But AFAIK Beman's post-processing tools don't like that an alternative
 >destination is set for the derived objects via ALL_LOCATE_TARGET (unless
 >that has changed now too ?)

Not yet, but it is on the do-list.

If anyone wants to made the changes, feel free. I think it is as simple as 
getting the path of the boost-root and target-root separately on program 
entry, and the reviewing the existing code to make sure the root is used.

--Beman