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

From: Matthew Towler (towler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-03 09:14:30

Beman Dawes wrote:
 >
 > Are you using run_tests.sh from CVS or your own script?
 >

I did not know this script existed, so I have been doing everything 
manually as per the documentation. on 
http://www.boost.org/more/regression.html
and making the obvious syntactic adjustments for unix

 > 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.

Yes it is wrong, sorry that was a cut-and-paste error on my part when 
writing this email.

 > What I would expect is BOOST_ROOT set to:
 >
 >   /scratch8/buildman/builds/linux-boost-1.30.2

yes it was, sorry about that

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One thing I noticed is that this documentation indicates setting a 
BOOST_ROOT environment variable, whilst run_tests.sh uses boost_root, I 
was under the impression that case mattered - or is this irrelevant as 
boost_root is always passed into the executables on the command line 
rather than automatically referred to?

I retried the processing of the regression test results using the 
run_tests.sh script and got exactly the same result from 
'compiler_status', namely

*** Error: std::runtime_error: boost::filesystem::directory_iterator 
constructor: 
"/scratch8/buildman/builds/linux_boost_1_30_2/0_2/tools/regression/build/bin": 
No such file or directory

BOOST_ROOT (and boost_root in the script) were set to 
/scratch8/buildman/builds/linux_boost_1_30_2

so I believe it is the processing program that is adding the spurious 
'0_2' to the path.

I also tried the script on IRIX (with the mipspro 7.3.1.3 compiler), 
with a script adjusted to set test_tools and toolset to mipspro.  I got 
the following (good) output for the processing

processing the regression test results for mipspro:
Usage: bjam [bjam-args] | process_jam_log [locate-root]
  locate-root is the same as the bjam ALL_LOCATE_TARGET
  parameter, if any. Default is boost-root.
boost_root: /local/buildman/builds/boost-1.30.2
locate_root: /local/buildman/builds/boost-1.30.2
no errors detected
generating html tables:
Using /local/buildman/builds/boost-1.30.2/status/bin/config_test.test to 
determine compilers
no errors detected
done!

However when I look at the generated webpage (cs-IRIX64.html), most of 
the tests are marked as missing. e.g. for regex regex_grep_example_1, 2, 
3, are marked as Missing, whilst regex_grep_example_4 is a Pass.

Looking at the corresponding regress.log file, all of these four tests 
passed - and when located in $BOOST_ROOT running
find . -name "*.xml" | grep example_
gives
./libs/regex/example/bin/regex_grep_example_1.test/mipspro/debug/threading-multi/test_log.xml
./libs/regex/example/bin/regex_grep_example_2.test/mipspro/debug/threading-multi/test_log.xml
./libs/regex/example/bin/regex_grep_example_3.test/mipspro/debug/threading-multi/test_log.xml
./libs/regex/example/bin/regex_grep_example_4.test/mipspro/debug/threading-multi/test_log.xml
./libs/regex/example/bin/regex_split_example_1.test/mipspro/debug/threading-multi/test_log.xml
./libs/regex/example/bin/regex_split_example_2.test/mipspro/debug/threading-multi/test_log.xml

so it would appear the output is there - so I do not understand why the 
tests are Missing.

Thanks for any help

Matt