Re: [boost] Building and testing filesystem library on AIX

From: chris.grayson_at_[hidden]
Date: 2006-05-10 18:14:00

Beman, thanks for the reply. 

> Boost.Filesystem doesn't directly do any multi-threading, but it does use 
> shared_ptr. Are the shared_ptr tests working for you? If not, you need to 
> resolve those problems before trying Boost.Filesystem.

I ran the tests in libs/smart_ptr/test, including the longer test of
"shared_ptr_alloc_test", and they passed with flying colors (except the
two intentional compile failures; those threw me for a minute :-).

>> ../../../bin/boost/libs/filesystem/test/path_test.test/gcc/debug/path_test.run
>> ====== BEGIN OUTPUT ======
>> Platform is POSIX
>> /data2/cgrayson/boost_1_33_1/boost/test/minimal.hpp(122): exception
>> "signal: SIGABRT (application abort requested)" caught in function:
>> 'int main(int,
>> char**)'
>>
>> **** Testing aborted.
>> **** 1 error detected
>>
>> EXIT STATUS: 201
>> ====== END OUTPUT ======
>
> Any chance of getting a call stack trace at time of abort?
>

The crash is happening when running the "path_test.cpp" test, in
particular in the call to "path::default_name_check(fs::no_check);" in
the try block below:

77  BOOST_CHECK( path::default_name_check_writable() );
78  BOOST_CHECK( path::default_name_check() == fs::portable_name );
79  BOOST_CHECK( !path::default_name_check_writable() );
80  bool default_name_check_threw = false;
81  try { path::default_name_check( fs::no_check ); }
82  catch ( const fs::filesystem_error & ) { default_name_check_threw =
true; }
83  BOOST_CHECK( default_name_check_threw );

Execution never reaches the catch, or the last BOOST_CHECK listed.

Thanks,
Chris