Re: [Boost-build] Boost.Build unit test bugs.

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-15 14:51:36

On Wednesday 15 August 2007 22:23:20 Rene Rivera wrote:
> Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
> >> If I understand correctly, regexp based matching was introduced just
> >> so that you don't need to explicitly pass the right toolset name to
> >> tests. Do you think that's still needed?
> > 
> >    From what I've seen so far it seems that globbing (my mistake in the 
> > previous post - these are not actually full regular expressions but unix 
> > style glob syntax for specifying file/folder paths) was introduced you 
> > would not need to specify the exact target folder (including all the 
> > feature specific folders).
> 
> Well, unfortunately I introduced the globbing to account for the aspect 
> that even if one specifies the toolset as "gcc" BBv2 now expands that 
> internally to the toolset with version, for example "gcc-4.1.2". 

For the record, I still think that while that was a nuisance, it was a relatively
minor one -- toolset versions on my system don't change that often.

> But as  
> you note the difference in the variant directories is an even more 
> annoying problem.

Which difference?

- Volodya