Re: [Boost-testing] Help with boost testing required

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-09-03 11:59:54

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>
>> I've carefully followed the instrucntions at
>> http://www.boost.org/tools/regression/xsl_reports/runner/instructions.html
>>
>> but it doesn't work.  The log generated by regression.py looks OK
>> but the bjam.log indicates a problem:  Below is the results/bjam.log
>> file.
>>
>> The messages indicate that it expects to find a directory
>> boost/python/boost_python and in fact the expansion of the tarball
>> generated
>> no such directory.  I did generate boost/python with a bumch of *.hpp
>> files.
>>
>> Could someone offer a suggestion?
>>
>> Robert Ramey
>>
>> results/bjam.log

....

> As the message says "/boost/python//boost_python" neither file or
> *target*. Such target is only defined when you configure python in
> your user-config.jam

But the user-config.jam is from the extracted tarball !!!

So following the instructions at 
C:\BoostSVN\boost\tools\regression\xsl_reports\runner\instructions.html
can never work ?

I suppose I can start hacking around to try to make it work but I don't 
think this should be necessary.

Speciifically what should I do here?

Robert Ramey