Re: [boost] Adding Boost.Test unit tests to regression test

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-16 12:15:50

At 04:04 AM 8/16/2002, Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
 >Hi,
 >
 >I added following 2 lines to status/Jamfile. It seems to work. But I have
 >several issues:
 >
 >    SEARCH on Jamfile = $(BOOST_ROOT)$(SLASH)libs$(SLASH)test$(SLASH)test 
;
 >    include Jamfile ;
 >
 >1. Is it correct way of adding library tests to the to status/Jamfile (at
 >least till we introduce traversing rule into this file)? What  will
 >happened
 >if somebody else would wont to add his tests?
 >I was trying something like:
 >    SEARCH on test$(SLASH)test$(SLASH)Jamfile = $(BOOST_ROOT)$(SLASH)libs 
;
 >    include test$(SLASH)test$(SLASH)Jamfile ;
 >It does not work. BTW if I add $(SLASH) to the end of search path in
 >original version it does not work either.
 >
 >2. Some of my tests require input file in the same directory where test 
is
 >executed. How to achieve this?
 >
 >3. Some tests produce some side effect - generate some temporary files. 
How
 >could I clean it
 >4. GCC seems to crash on some run-fail tests with staticcore dumping when
 >fatal errors like division on zero happened. bjam reports failure. Is it
 >true?
 >5. Test are compiled and run in boost/libs/test/test/bin directory 
instead
 >of status/bin. How will regression testing will handle this?

Your status/Jamfile changes broke all tests this morning.  I had to revert 
to the prior status/Jamfile version to get them to run.

Sorry, I didn't have time to debug the exact reasons.

--Beman