Re: [boost] Running Boost Regression Tests

Subject: Re: [boost] Running Boost Regression Tests
From: Vladimir Prus (vladimir_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-05 11:55:40

frederic.bron_at_[hidden] wrote:

> Great: I managed to run the tests for cygwin g++ 3.4.4 (29 Gbytes of disk space!). Tests have been
> transferred to boost. However, there is also a strange error:
> 
> # Starting tests ("/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/tools_bjam/bin.cygwinx86/bjam.exe"
> # "-sBOOST_BUILD_PATH=/cygdrive/g/boost_regression:/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/tools_bb"
> "-sBOOST_ROOT=/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost" "--boost=/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost"
> "--boost-build=/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/tools_bb" "--debug-configuration"  -l300 gcc-3.4.4 -d2
> --dump-tests -j3 "--build-dir=/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/results"
> >>"/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/results/bjam.log" 2>&1)...
> # Running Boost.Build tests
> # Using bjam binary in '/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/tools_bjam/bin.cygwinx86'
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost/tools/build/v2/test/test_all.py", line 229, in <module>
>     run_tests(critical_tests, tests)
>   File "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost/tools/build/v2/test/test_all.py", line 51, in run_tests
>     __import__(i)
>   File "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost/tools/build/v2/test/custom_generator.py", line 47, in
>   <module>
>     t.expect_content("bin/$toolset/debug/r.obj", "rc-object")
>   File "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost/tools/build/v2/test/BoostBuild.py", line 711, in
>   expect_content
>     actual = self.__read_file(name, exact)
>   File "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost/tools/build/v2/test/BoostBuild.py", line 704, in
>   __read_file
>     result = string.replace(self.read_and_strip(name), "\\", "/")
>   File "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/boost/tools/build/v2/test/BoostBuild.py", line 524, in
>   read_and_strip
>     lines = open(self.glob_file(name), "rb").readlines()
> TypeError: coercing to Unicode: need string or buffer, list found
> # Getting test case results out of "/cygdrive/g/boost_regression/results/bjam.log"...

If the tests were uploaded, this error does not matter -- it breaks Boost.Build testings,
but not not C++ Boost testing. I'll look into this failure after I review Boost.Build
results on other targets.

- Volodya