Re: [boost] [1.35.0] Developer preparation

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-31 21:46:52

on Wed Oct 31 2007, Beman Dawes <bdawes-AT-acm.org> wrote:

> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> Markus Schöpflin wrote:
>>> Stefan Seefeld wrote:
>> 
>>>> That doesn't explain why there were no failures prior to the 1.34
>>>> release. Are the current failures all on newly added platforms ? What is
>>>> different now from before 1.34 ?
>>> It still works on my test platform (COMSOFT), I'm using python 2.4.1. 
>>> Probably the python version used by the regression test runners have changed?
>> 
>> That's entirely possible (I read that Python's handling of default
>> search paths has changed on Windows with version 2.5).
>> 
>> This brings up a point I have been making for a long time:
>> 
>> Can the testing / regression harness be fixed to report more parameters
>> that affect the development / runtime environment ? In this particular
>> case: the python version is certainly a critical piece of information,
>> but it doesn't appear to be listed in the platform description.

Get the output from passing --debug-configuration when you invoke
bjam.  That tells everything one needs to know.

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Dave Abrahams
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