[boost] Re: Regression: avoid cleanup of binaries

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-09-21 16:19:17

Stefan Slapeta <stefan_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Martin Wille wrote:
>> That cleanup is not supposed to be "total". The test system
>> will remove binaries which have been tested with success.
>> This procedure is required in order to keep the total size
>> of all test binaries within reasonable limits.
>> 
>
> This care about my disk space is very obliging. Nevertheless, if I
> kindly ask, is there an easy way to avoid this? I've a list of test
> cases which behave _very_ strangly (GPF, obviously incorrect exit
> code, ...) without reflecting this in the test results, and it seems
> the time has come now to have a look at this.

Add --preserve-test-targets to the bjam command line and they won't
be removed.

> Anyway, do you know an easy way to manually build a single test
> case?

bjam name-of-test

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Dave Abrahams
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