Re: [boost] Boost Serialization Tests Status

From: Jeff Garland (jeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-16 19:27:59

On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 17:07:58 -0700, Robert Ramey wrote
> In review the test compiler status tables things are looking very 
> much better.  There a number of pending issues:
> 
>...snip...
> 1) that the current directory while the test is being run is
> boost/libs/serialization/test and that the directory

> 2) boost/libs/serialization/example has it permissions set to permit 
> file creation.
> 
> Upon reflection it seems that there is no reason to suppose these to 
> be true.
> 
> I wonder if someone could check to see if this is the problem.  Meanwhile
> I'll investigate what it would take to change the demos so that this 
> is not a problem.

This is certainly not the case when he regression tests are run.  The working
directory is actually BOOST_ROOT/status for all the tests -- so this is likely
the issue.  Let me know when you have a fix and I will rerun for you...

> b) in several cases it seems that there is a build configuration 
> issue as it relates to multi-threading libraries.  This might be an 
> issue with intel
> 8.0, and gcc 3.4.1 builds.
> 
> c) I don't think that gcc 2.95 can be used with the serialization library.
> The error messages seem to indicate this gcc doesn't have templated streams
> and the serialization library requires them.  Perhaps some 
> combination of gcc 2.95 - stlPort might work.  I will exclude markup 
> to skip the vanilla gcc 2.5 tests.

Seems reasonable -- 2.95 is an ancient compiler.  I see no reason for you to
support it.
 
Jeff