Re: [Boost-build] alias/test-suite/inline targets changes

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-04 13:49:22

On Wednesday 18 October 2006 09:43, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:49, Rene Rivera wrote:
> > Eric Niebler wrote:
> > > Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > >> I've just tried this Jamfile, and it works as expected -- only the
> > >> first testcase runs. Do you have up-to-date tree? Is this CVS HEAD, or
> > >> RC_1_34_0?
> > >>
> > >> What's the revision of tools/build/v2/tools/testing.jam? It should be
> > >> 1.45
> > >
> > > I just tried again and it works! I don't know what I was doing wrong
> > > before. Sorry for the noise, and thanks.
> >
> > Is this related to
> > <https://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/boost.build/ticket/68>? If so, does it
> > partially or fully address the issue?
>
> It's somewhat related. Now you can use 'explicit name-of-test-suite ; ' and
> no test will be run unless you name testsuite explicitly.
>
> I'm not quite sure about V1's behaviour where test-suites were explicit by
> default. That differs from every other target.
>
> Also, IIRC, V1 has a special 'test' target that is not declared explicitly,
> and which results in building all tests.  Again, I'm not sure it's good
> idea to implicitly define taregts.
>
> So, what do you think is the right behaviour to have in V2?

Rene,
did you miss the above message?

- Volodya