Re: [boost] Linux regressions

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-19 23:40:45

Jeff Garland writes:
> If you look at the date_time/test/Jamfile you will see that the group of tests
> that is failing to run is from this group:
>
>    test-suite date_time_core
>      : 
>     [ run testint_adapter.cpp ]
>     [ run testtime_resolution_traits.cpp ]
>     [ run testwrapping_int.cpp ]
>     [ run testconstrained_value.cpp ]
>     [ run testgregorian_calendar.cpp ]
>     [ run testgeneric_period.cpp ]
>    ; 
>
> not the sets:
>
>    test-suite date_time_gregorian
>      : 
>    [ run gregorian/testdate.cpp <lib>../build/boost_date_time : : :
> $(DATE_TIME_PROPERTIES) ]
>
>  ...etc...
>
> You'll note that additional lib dependency.  Pure speculation is that adding
> the lib dependency somehow sets things up so that the path to the lib can be
> found (perhaps the gcc rpath option which builds the library paths into the
> executable?).  Note that we have done testing with similar setups here on
> Linux and don't have a problem, so this is all just wild guesses...

I think we've tracked it down now --
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.build/6456. Let's see how
the next round of tests turns out. Thanks for your help!

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering