Re: [boost] trouble with generating html compiler status pages

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-02 09:55:57

At 09:09 AM 9/2/2003, Matthew Towler wrote:

 >I have been attempting to build boost 1.30.2 for a number of platforms.
 >
 >I also wish to generate the html testsuite output for several reasons -
 >My own peace of mind, because we are using a reasonably large number of
 >platforms (some of which do not appear on the status tables), and so I
 >can see which parts of the libraries work on all our platforms.
 >
 >In general I have been successful with the building of the
 >tools/libraries and running the testsuites as per the documentaion to
 >produce bjam.log.  However when I try to process the bjam.log I get a
 >number of errors and/or erroneous output.  I will describe my gcc/linux
 >experience as this is the platform I expected to have least trouble with.

Are you using run_tests.sh from CVS or your own script?

The kinds of troubles you describe can be caused by (1) wrong BOOST_ROOT, 
(2) failing to cd $boost_root/status before running the tests, (3) wrong 
arguments to the actual programs.

 >...
 >
 >I checked that BOOST_ROOT was set to
 >/scratch8/buildman/builds/linux-boost-1.30.2/0.2/status/bin

That looks very suspicious and is almost certainly wrong. What I would 
expect is BOOST_ROOT set to:

   /scratch8/buildman/builds/linux-boost-1.30.2

or possibly (if you have copied the tree to 0.2):

   /scratch8/buildman/builds/linux-boost-1.30.2/0.2

Which of those directories has c++boost.gif, LICENSE, and README? Those 
live in the root directory, so can be checked for to verify you have 
BOOST_ROOT set correctly.

HTH,

--Beman