Re: [boost] BOOST_HAS_PTHREADS, BOOST_HAS_SCHED_YIELD tests in config_test not strict enough

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-08 04:18:53

Peter Dimov wrote:
> I wrote:
> 
>> This isn't particularly odd or surprising. But I think that
>> config_test ought to fail on these platforms, for the same reason my
>> tests fail. The reason the test passes is because
>> boost_has_pthreads.ipp and boost_has_sched_yield.ipp are too
>> permissive; 
> 
> The tests are indeed too permissive... but the real reason is that
> config_test is always run with <threading>multi, so the default
> configuration is never tested. Is this correct? Most of our other
> tests do not use <threading>multi, so it seems reasonable to run
> config_test in this mode as well (in addition to the existing
> <threading>multi run). 

Ah, I'll add another build variant for that test.

John.