[boost] bjam reporting failed tests as successes [was: Win32 tests being updated ...]

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-15 08:28:16

At 08:56 AM 8/15/2002, Beman Dawes wrote:

 >But there is one worrisome issue: looking at the bjam output log, it
 >appears that there were many Boost.Test compile failures.  See example
 >below.
 >
 >How could the many tests that depend on Boost.Test pass if the Boost.Test 

 >library isn't being built?  Is it possible that bjam is failing to
 >recognize this, and using the residue library from the previous run?

Serious problem.  I deleted libs/test/build/bin and reran "bjam config"

For all compilers, the Boost.Test libraries failed to build because of the 
std::distance problem.

limits_test.cpp itself also had a compile fail on all compilers.  See below 
for the vc7 results.

Yet the Boost.Build residue in 
status\bin\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic was never 
modified, so the test is still being reported as "pass" when it should be 
"fail"!

This looks like a serious bjam testing bug:-(

--Beman

vc-C++ 
..\status\bin\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic\limits_test.obj
limits_test.cpp
C:\boost\site\boost\test\detail\unit_test_config.hpp(34) : error C2039: 
'distance' : is not a member of 'std'
C:\boost\site\boost\test\detail\unit_test_config.hpp(34) : error C2873: 
'distance' : symbol cannot be used in a using-declaration

     CALL "d:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 
.NET\VC7\bin\VCVARS32.BAT" >nul
     "d:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\VC7\bin\cl"  /Zm400 
-nologo -GX -c   /Z7 /Od /Ob0 /GX /GR 
/MDd   -I"..\status"  -I"C:\boost\site" 
-Fo"..\status\bin\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic\limits_test.obj" 
-Tp"C:\boost\site\libs/config/test\limits_test.cpp"

...failed vc-C++ 
..\status\bin\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic\limits_test.obj...
...skipped 
<status\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic>limits_test.CMD for 
lack of 
<status\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic>limits_test.obj...
...skipped 
<status\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic>limits_test.exe for 
lack of 
<status\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic>limits_test.CMD...
...skipped 
<status\limits_test.test\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic>limits_test.test 
for lack of 
<libs!test!build\libtest_exec_monitor.lib\vc7\debug\runtime-link-dynamic>libtest_exec_monitor.lib...