Re: [boost] old regression test

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-03 07:38:41

At 06:27 AM 9/3/2002, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >I suppose the old regression tests do not work anymore ?
 >I get some failiures due to main not being defined (because in the test
 >program it's 'test_main') and some other symbols from the
 >unit_test_framework.
 >
 >ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol:
 >.boost::test_toolbox::detail::test_and_continue_impl(bool,const
 >boost::test_toolbox::detail::wrapstrstream&,const
 >char*,int,bool,boost::unit_test_framework::report_level)
 >ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .main
 >
 >
 >I'm switching to the new regression tests but at the same time I wanted 
to
 >do a quick comparison of my upgraded compiler using the old framework.

Toon,

AFAIK, You have three choices. The code in the programs to be tested now 
reads:

   #define BOOST_INCLUDE_MAIN
   #include <boost/test/test_tools.hpp>

1) You can change that to use a V1 drop-in replacement:

   #include <boost/detail/lightweight_test.hpp>

2) You can instead add an #include to suck in all the V2 heavyweight code:

   #include <boost/test/included/test_exec_monitor.hpp>

3) You can hack <boost/test/test_tools.hpp> to do (1) when 
BOOST_INCLUDE_MAIN is defined.

To me, only (3) makes any sense for existing code like the Boost tests, and 
similar cases where a really lightweight header only solution is 
useful.  Hopefully Gennadiy is finally convinced that (3) best meets the 
requirements for some users, and will make (3) a regular part of 
Boost.Test.

--Beman