[boost] Re: mingw test results

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-08-27 05:33:14

> >I've been looking at your regression test results for mingw:
> >
> >config_test and all the regex tests are failing with a runtime exit code
of
> >128, however they pass for me here, and for some of the other testers as
> >well (see the Bronek Kozicki results).  Do you have any idea what's
> >happening here?  If you can get a stack backtrace for the problem that's
> >happening in config_test that would be a big help.
>
> I re-compiled the test (config) using dev-cpp (which is the mingw I'm
> using) and ran the test manually AND with the debugger
> error_count (and what gets returned) is clearly 0 in both runs.
>
> apparently there is some hiccup w/ the interface to the boost test
fixture.
> I'll be happy to debug there if someone can give me a hint where to start.

Not sure, but you could try:

bjam -a -d2 config_test

which may indicate some kind of difference between what bjam is doing, and
what your manual builds are doing; then again it may not :-(

Thanks!

John.