Re: [boost] A question to release manager. Was: [typeof] pleasemake native tests expected failures on HP-UX

From: Boris Gubenko (Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-18 08:45:27

Thank you, Peder and Arkadiy, for taking care of this issue.

Boris

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peder Holt" <peder.holt_at_[hidden]>
To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
Sent: Thursday, January 18, 2007 5:47 AM
Subject: Re: [boost] A question to release manager. Was: [typeof] pleasemake 
native tests expected failures on HP-UX

> 2007/1/18, Arkadiy Vertleyb <vertleyb_at_[hidden]>:
>> "Boris Gubenko" <Boris.Gubenko_at_[hidden]> wrote
>>
>> >   The issue is that, like other compilers, including such EDG-based
>> >   compilers as como-4_3_3-vc7_1 and cxx on Tru64, the HP-UX aCC6 compiler
>> >   does not support typeof keyword in default mode (both cxx and aCC6
>> >   support it in Gnu dialect mode). For toolsets using compilers that do
>> not
>> >   support typeof keyword, the "*_native" group of typeof library tests is
>> >   marked expected failure (there are some 19 tests in this group). The
>> >   patch below adds "acc" to the list of these toolsets. Please, apply it
>> >   to CVS HEAD and the RC branch.
>>
>> This is a simple change in explicit-failures-markup.xml.  The question is,
>> should we (are we allowed to at this point) apply a change that is not
>> related to a release compiler?
>
> I already commited the changes to the release branch...
>
> There are regression results for this compiler for the RC branch.
> What other criterias are needed to categorize a compiler as a release 
> compiler?
>
> If this turns out to be an issue, I'll revert the changes.
>
> Regards,
> Peder
>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Arkadiy
>>
>>
>>
>>
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