Re: [boost] Trunk tests broken

Subject: Re: [boost] Trunk tests broken
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-02 16:33:41

Beman Dawes wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Could I suggest that when the trunk tests are completely broken, as
>> they are now, and the report generation is cycling normally (every 1
>> to 2 hours) as it is now, that the likely source of breakage is a
>> recent commit to the trunk repository. To reproduce the trunk
>> failure, simply checkout out a current version of the trunk, cd to
>> the status directory, and run bjam. If you do this right now, you'll
>> find this error message.
>>
>> error: Unable to find file or target named
>> error: 'test_diamond_complex.cpp'
>> error: referred from project at
>> error: '../libs/serialization/test'
>>
>> This is what's currently killing trunk testing.
>
> bjam shouldn't stop entirely because a file isn't found. At worst,
> that library's tests should fail.
>
> Can Boost.Build or bjam be modified to be more tolerant of errors
> during regression testing?
>
> --Beman
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