On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Paul A. Bristow <pbristow@hetp.u-net.com> wrote:

From: Beman Dawes [mailto:bdawes@acm.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 8:56 PM
To: steven; Boost.Build developer's and user's list
Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to run inspect as part of a test-suite?

On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj@gmail.com> wrote:

AMDG

On 12/20/2013 08:03 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 10:43 AM, Steven Watanabe <watanabesj@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> On 12/20/2013 07:10 AM, Beman Dawes wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su> wrote:
>>>
>>> [ run /boost/tools/inspect//inspect/<variant>release
>>> : .. -text -brief # command line
>>
>> You just need to root .. by using path-constant.
>>
>
> Sorry, that's way above my bjam skill level. And since use of inspect in
> this context is almost always going to need command line arguments, the ..
> doesn't appear to be a problem.
>
What I mean is that passing a literal .. won't work
when bjam is run from a different directory
(status/ for instance).

path-constant parent : .. ;
# ...
run ... : $(parent) -text -brief ;

I've now tested this and it worked fine, AFAICS.

All changes to inspect, timer, and the super have been merged to master.

Actually, I didn't push the timer changes to master until a few minutes ago.

This is a Really Useful Thing.

I'm hoping so.

Please give it a try and report any problems. Once it is working smoothly, I'll post a note to the main list letting maintainers know how to use it. Basically, what you do is to update your test Jamfile.v2:

* Before anything else, add:

path-constant parent : .. ; # so that inspect will start in boost-root/libs/timer
# when run from another directory, such as boost-root/status

* In the test-suite section add:

     [ run /boost/tools/inspect//inspect/<variant>release
       : $(parent) -text -brief # command line
       : # input files
       : <dependency>/boost/filesystem//boost_filesystem
         <test-info>always_show_run_output # requirements
       : inspect # test name
     ]

Happy New Year,

--Beman