Re: [boost] Call for regression test volunteers

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-09 12:01:55

[2003-01-09] David Abrahams wrote:

>Toon Knapen <toon.knapen_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>>> 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.
>>
>> At the moment I'm going for John's suggestion : compile the tools with
gcc and 
>> then proceed with aCC.
>>
>> I had my own script to do all the work but I figured I might as well 
>> use/contribute to the script in tools/regression/run_tests.sh. One
question 
>> though, the line :
>>
>> cd $BOOST_ROOT/tools/build/jam_src && \
>> make CC=gcc YACC="" LOCATE_TARGET=bin
>>
>> is giving me trouble due to the LOCATE_TARGET. This apparantly makes
>> that the sources are searched for in the bin subdir ?! Should'nt it
>> be removed ?
>
>No, it means that targets will be placed in the bin subdir.
>However, Rene has put together some new build scripts for bjam.  The
>new recommended procedure is:
>
>   bash ./build.sh
>
>I know that build.sh starts with #!/bin/sh, but in fact it seems to
>require bash on my machine.  My sh doesn't know about 'function'.

Hmm, I thought I fixed that :-( I'll fix ASAP as I move over to compiling on
OpenBSD as it has a real sh.

I'm also changing the test script to the new method.

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