Re: [boost] BJAM help request

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-08-02 11:00:46

At 11:24 AM 7/21/2003, Robert Ramey wrote:
 >Fellow boosters.,
 >
 >I hope to be soon uploading a draft of a much evolved version of the
 >serialization library
 >reviewed last november.  I have been working with BJAM to automate 
builind
 >of library and tests, and running the tests. So far so good.
 >
 >The system build around BJAM seems to work very well and I  am very 
pleased
 >with it - BUT.  The logic is seems to be spread around different files 
and
 >directories and is hard to track down.  and the jam language takes some
 >getting used to.
 >
 >I currently have about 30 tests.  I would like to run each of the tests
 >under all the following combinations:
 >
 >30 tests
 >5 3 or 4 compilers I have on my machine
 >2 modes (release and debug)
 >5 different compile time defines - for applying each test to each archive
 >
 >so that's around 1500 test combinations.
 >
 >So I need help in enhancing my jamfile  to do this automatically.  If any 

 >jam expert wants to help me with this I would be please do here from him
 >on private email.

Robert, if you didn't get a response to this, you might want to try the 
jamboost mailing list.

--Beman