Re: [boost] Regressions in your Boost libraries as of 2005-06-27

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-01 02:57:23

David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Douglas Gregor <doug.gregor_at_[hidden]> writes:
>
>> On Jun 27, 2005, at 1:24 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
>>> Is there a machine I can login to at OSL where I can GDB this setup?
>>> I could build that compiler myself, but...
>>
>> eddie.osl.iu.edu
>>
>> You should have access already, and the toolset looks like this:
>>
>> {
>>    GCC_ROOT_DIRECTORY = "/u/dgregor/Build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.6" ;
>>    extends-toolset gcc ;
>>    PYTHON_VERSION = 2.3 ;
>>    PYTHON_ROOT = "/u/dgregor/Build/i686-pc-linux-gnu/gcc-3.3.6" ;
>> }
>
> I'm testing now, but you should know that this method of setting up
> the Python location is not going to work in general.  You only get one
> setting of those variables for your entire test run (two if you're on
> Windows, so you can test Cygwin as well), and setting them in the
> toolset may be too late.  In principle they have to be set on the
> command-line or in the environment, like their doc says.

And when I do things the right way, everything passes with flying
colors.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com