Re: Handling testcases that are known to fail?

From: rogeeff (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-24 01:51:32

--- In boost_at_y..., Douglas Gregor <gregod_at_c...> wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 January 2002 08:18 pm, you wrote:
> > New Test Library present mechanism for defining expected number of
> > failures. You still need to set appropriate value for each 
compiler.
> 
> How would this apply to compile failures? In the cases I'm looking 
at 
> currently, we know that file foo.cpp cannot possibly compile on 
> compiler/platform bar because an essential feature is missing. To 
get more 
> concrete, I know that the regex wide character tests will not 
compile on 
> FreeBSD 3.x, because its libraries do not have wchar.h.
> 
> 	Doug

I have compilability checks in my to-do list, though I do not know 
now to implement this yet.

Gennadiy.