Re: [boost] [config] auto-link tests

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-28 01:07:43

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> John,
> are your V2-based auto-link tests in CVS yet? I'm not sure it would
> be good to add them to regression tests at this moment, but I'd
> rather have them in CVS just in case.

Looks like I dropped that particular ball around here somewhere....

I've committed what I have to cvs HEAD, but note that:

All the targets will compile only with Borland.

With msvc (especially V8) there are some "impossible" targets that will 
fail, I haven't tried it lately though: I was waiting to see how bbv2 would 
handle impossible-compiler-variants.  Has there been any progress on this?

On non-windows platforms we probably shouldn't be bothering building any of 
these targets?

Hmmm, just been running the tests, and there are some strange things going 
on.

I have some targets that specify impossible variants for msvc (but not for 
Borland), for example:

run ../main.cpp link_test
  : : : <define>BOOST_DYN_LINK=1 <link>shared <runtime-link>shared 
<threading>single release : link_test_dll_dyn_single_release ;

But the <threading>single seems to just get ignored, and it builds the 
<threading>multi variant instead.  Is this expected?

On the other hand, this target:

run ../main.cpp link_test
  : : : <link>static <runtime-link>static <threading>single debug : 
link_test_static_single_debug ;

which is valid for msvc-7.1 but not msvc-8.0 builds for the former, but not 
the latter?

Thanks, John.