Re: [boost] [Report] 2749 regressions on RC_1_34_0 (2007-01-24)

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-01-25 10:23:49

Joaquín Mª López Muñoz wrote:

> 
> 
> Arkadiy Vertleyb ha escrito:
> 
>> "Stefan Seefeld" <seefeld_at_[hidden]> wrote
>>
>> > If the rate regressions were fixed over the last couple of weeks is any
>> > indication, getting from this high a number down towards zero will take
>> > another year or three... :-(
>>
>> What happened?  I thought we were down to 6 failures at some point... 
>> Are all these new failures just indication of a problem in some low-level
>> library?
> 
> AFAIK things aren't as bad as they look:
> 
> * Scores of tests from the "Martin Wille x86_64 V2" regression runner are
> bogus entries due to an as of yet unresolved problem with the tool used
> to run the regression procedure, see
> http://lists.boost.org/boost-testing/2007/01/3853.php

That's false alarm, but we've tracked that down to another problem:

        http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing/3895

- Volodya