Re: [boost] ATTN: Beman / Eric (was Re: [1.37] status/Jamfile.v2)

Subject: Re: [boost] ATTN: Beman / Eric (was Re: [1.37] status/Jamfile.v2)
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-10-20 08:13:48

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 5:07 AM, John Maddock <john_at_[hidden]>wrote:

> Nicola Musatti wrote:
>
>> What makes you say that? The tests on the release branch have been
>>>> running successfully.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm not sure where the difference is between how the official
>>> regression tests are run and how local testing is performed. If I
>>> run bjam from the boost/status directory in a sandbox checked out
>>> from branches/release with a command line as the following:
>>>
>>> bjam -a --v2 --dump-tests toolset=borland-6.1.0
>>>
>>> The tests for the libraries I listed below aren't run.
>>>
>>
> Hmm, just tried:
>
> bjam -n -a --dump-tests toolset=borland
>
> and the libs you list do have their tests run (which doesn't mean we
> shouldn't merge status/Jamfile.v2 changes of course, the question is whether
> to do it now).  Also those libs do have their test results showing up in the
> test matrix.
>
> Confused yours, John.

Me too. In any case, this doesn't seem to be something to hold up the beta
for, so unless I hit some other showstopper as I scan unread mail, I'm going
to start building the beta today.

--Beman