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

From: Toon Knapen (toon.knapen_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-09-05 05:20:28

First of all, I also had the "out of range" error which made my nightly
regression tests fail. I tried to analyse the problem but failed to find
it. However the IBM of last night apparantly worked (see
boost.sourceforge.net/regression-logs). My compilation on IRIX fails for
two days in a row however.

>  >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 don't know the answer to that. Someone familiar with
> running under Unix 
> needs to answer.

Indeed case does matter. 'boost_root' however is defined arount line
number 10 in the run_tests.sh. Now I start to wonder, would it be better
to just rely on BOOST_ROOT (the env.var.) instead of defining boost_root
and providing this var to the command line of the 'compiler_status' exe
? Beman ?

> 
>  >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/regre
> ssion/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 would do several things if that happened here:
> 
> (1) run only on a single test (I usually use config_info). That makes
> testing simpler and quicker.

I tried to do that but. On Sun this works fine for instance.
On IBM however, I get

<quote>
/home/tk/boost_regression/boost/status> bjam config_info
...found 35 targets...
...updating 1 target...
MkDir1 ..
mkdir: 0635-358 Cannont create ...
...: Do not specify an existing file.
<unquote>

This is really weird. I have not set ALL_LOCATE_TARGET. Anybody any idea
what could be going wrong ?

toon