Re: Release 1.25.1 plans

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-10-17 13:35:49

--- In boost_at_y..., "David Abrahams" <david.abrahams_at_r...> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <williamkempf_at_h...>
> 
> > Any progress been made in integrating the Boost.Build system with 
the
> > Boost.RegressionTest system?
> 
> A little. I added regression suites recently; I think all we really 
need is
> html generation.
> 
> > Is there anything I can do to help with
> > the work in this area, keeping in mind that I don't know a lot 
about
> > either?
> 
> Will you be in Redmond? I hope to get together with Jens on this 
topic at
> that time. I would welcome your participation.

Yes, I'll be in Redmond and would be happy to participate in any 
discussions on this topic.

BTW, I meant to send this to you in private e-mail, but since I'm 
here already, I think you've introduced some bugs into Boost.Build 
recently.  I'm taking a wild guess, but I think it came about with 
your recent changes to get the $(BOOSTROOT) stuff to work correctly.  
The following is a list of the things I've noticed that I think are 
broken now, but which used to work.

1) If I run Jam in boost\libs\thread\test in a pristine checkout it 
correctly attempts to run the Jamfile in boost\libs\thread\build, but 
nothing is built.

2) If I run Jam in boost\libs\thread\build first and then in 
boost\libs\thread\test the test program is built correctly but the 
attempts to execute the test program fails (on Win32) because the 
libboost_threadmon.dll can't be found (the Boost.Build system is no 
longer correctly locating the DLL based on the dependencies).

I'm assuming that both of these are related and that they are also 
related to the changes you made for $(BOOSTROOT), though I'm just 
guessing.  You should be able to easily reproduce this yourself with 
the latest snapshot from CVS but if you need the output from my 
attempts at running Jam just let me know in e-mail (they are a tad 
long for posting here).  It would be nice, though not essential, to 
have this working by the time we arrive in Redmond so that I can 
demonstrate Boost.Threads in action for anyone interested there.

Bill Kempf