Re: [boost] [log] MSVC 9 build hangs

Subject: Re: [boost] [log] MSVC 9 build hangs
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-02 08:36:57

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:41 AM, Andrey Semashev <
> andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>> On Monday 30 September 2013 07:46:31 Tom Kent wrote:
>> >
>> > On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:34 AM, Andrey Semashev
>> >
>> > <andrey.semashev_at_[hidden]>wrote:
>> > > On Wednesday 11 September 2013 09:34:55 Tom Kent wrote:
>> > > > > I tried building the library and tests on my local machine many
>> times
>> > >
>> > > and
>> > >
>> > > > > I've never seen linking to take 5 minutes. I have another setup
>> > > > > though.
>> > > > > Did
>> > > > > you notice any other abnormal behavior, such as memory growth or
>> > >
>> > > swapping
>> > >
>> > > > > or compiler/linker crashes maybe? Does linking ever complete?
>> > > >
>> > > > It doesn't seem to always be failing, and I don't have a good way to
>> > >
>> > > watch
>> > >
>> > > > it when the automated tests are run. Whenever I have manually built
>> it
>> > > > on
>> > > > this machine the linking never failed.
>> > >
>> > > Tom, the tests are continuing to fail and I don't know what can be
>> done on
>> > > Boost.Log side. Could you try to increase the timeout (to 10 minutes,
>> for
>> > > example)?
>> > >
>> > I'm not sure how, I think it needs to be added to the regression
>> scripts or
>> > test modules.
>>
>> I think you just need to add --timeout=10 option to your run.py command
>> line.
>>
>
> I've added this to all the builds running on teeks99-03, so if this works
> we should see it start getting better over the next couple days.
>

So, apparently it is something other than the timeout (or the timeout is
longer than 10) because they are still failing with --timeout=10:

http://www.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/developer/output/teeks99-03d-win2008-64on64-boost-bin-v2-libs-log-test-attr_attribute_set-test-msvc-11-0-debug-threading-multi.html