Re: [boost] Regression test sane-testing branch

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-19 17:48:03

At 12:57 PM 12/19/2002, Toon Knapen wrote:

 >On Tuesday 17 December 2002 16:10, Beman Dawes wrote:
 >> (You can ignore this message unless you run Boost regression testing
 >> software.)
 >>
 >> AFAIK, the changes are all working right now, and I'll switch the Win32
 >> tests over today.  But I'll delay merging the sane-testing branch in 
CVS
 >> until Friday to give users a bit of advance notice of the change.
 >>
 >> To change to the new setup, do this:
 >>
 >> * Rebuild bjam.
 >> * Delete all bin directories (residue files are different).
 >> * Change scripts to add the bjam --dump-tests option.
 >> * Rebuld status reporting programs (use
 >.../tools/regression/build/Jamfile)
 >>
 >
 >Thanks Beman and David. I tried it on IBM/Aix and everything works just
 >great.

That's good to hear. Thanks.

Do watch for changes and recompile when they occur. I'm still checking in 
bug-fixes to the status programs every day or so, although they do seem to 
be stablizing.

 > I recently adapted the Jamfile in the sandbox/filesystem/example
 >directory to use the filesystem lib from the boost-cvs but this seems
 >unnecessary now.

Yes, you should find Jamfiles for all needed builds. Let me know if 
anything is missing.

 >I'm also in the process of creating status-pages for HPUX 11. I hope to
 >checkin an acc-tools.jam tomorrow and upload already preliminary results
 >too.

Great! Thanks,

--Beman