Re: [boost] regression test feature requests

From: David Abrahams (abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-01-23 15:29:52

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jens Maurer" <Jens.Maurer_at_[hidden]>

> > In that case, the results at stdout are perfectly informative; I don't
> > really need an .html result. Could we just skip it?
>
> Difficult.  All of regression.cpp depends on having a valid ostream,
> and there is no "nullstream" or similar.  And ofstream("/dev/null") is
> not portable.

You could use a stringstream or strstream which is discarded.

> > 2. Trying to specify --config and --compiler seems to choke the test
system
> > on my machine:
>
> Not reproducible on Linux:
>
> ./regression --config compiler.cfg --compiler como-strict --output
/dev/null run libs/graph/test/graph.cpp
> *** libs/graph/test/graph.cpp ***
>
> ** Comeau C++ 4.2.44 beta3 (strict mode)
> como --strict_warnings -D__STRICT_ANSI__ -o boosttmp.exe -I..
../libs/graph/test/graph.cpp
>
> It looks like the last command line argument gets eaten at your system.
> Is it possibly too long?  Other than that, I cannot see any obvious
problems.

I don't know; maybe I'll try to debug it. I'll also try compiling
regression.cpp with another compiler.
-Dave