Re: [boost] [quickbook] All tests failing in Trunk?

Subject: Re: [boost] [quickbook] All tests failing in Trunk?
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-06-20 13:34:18

>> No it's the Jamfile not working I believe.
>>
>> I have an ulterior motive here: I copied the quickbook testing logic for
>> another tool that's in the sandbox and when I recently came back to it I
>> found it was no longer working... so I thought I would just copy the
>> quickbook logic again... only to find that it wasn't working either :-(
> 
> There seems to be a problem with msvc.jam, I think it's treating the
> test targets as executables.. Try building with 'bjam
> debug-symbols=off'. If that works then the culprit is the change in:
> 
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/55154
> https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/changeset/55173

Confirmed, works in release mode, but not in debug.

Any ideas?

Thanks, John.