Re: [boost] Call for regression test volunteers

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 08:39:42

Toon Knapen <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Wednesday 08 January 2003 17:16, Rene Rivera wrote:
>> [2003-01-08] Beman Dawes wrote:
>> >At 07:58 AM 1/8/2003, John Maddock wrote:
>> > >This is another call for volunteers to come forward to help run the
>> > > boost regression tests on more platforms, particularly needed are the
>> >
>> >commercial
>> >
>> > >Unix variants (Solaris, HP, SGI Irix etc), but also Free|Net|OpenBSD and
>> > >MacOS X.
>
> I'm working on the port to HPUX (recently I've send a few msg's out on this) 
> but have trouble compiling the regression-reporting tools. Already patched a 
> few things in MPL but now the filesystem lib is causing headeaches. If you 
> and/or Jens (did previous ports to HP) could help me out ... ?

I did a bunch of testing on and porting to HP, but I wasn't using
filesystem or the post-processing tools.  If it's giving you trouble
you might consider just using bjam to run tests for a while as you
pick off the low-hanging fruit.  It might well be that Filesystem is
broken because of some simpler library it depends on.

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