Re: [boost] [gil] Ok to merge new gil's extension to release branch?

Subject: Re: [boost] [gil] Ok to merge new gil's extension to release branch?
From: Christian Henning (chhenning_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-04-07 14:39:56

> > I have just updated my boost trunk and rebuild bjam and the boost libs
> > in Debug configuration. I can see there is static library called
> > libz.lib in my stage folder. Is there any way we could name it
> > something like zlib-vc100-mt-gd-1_2_5.lib? This way I can understand
> > which one is Debug and Release, etc.
> >
>
> Use <tag> (Documented here:
>
> http://www.boost.org/boost-build2/doc/html/bbv2/overview/builtins/features.html
> ).
>  You can look at $BOOST/boostcpp.jam
> for an example.  I suppose that I could add a default
> tag, but I'll have to think about it.
>
> I'll tackle this later then. First I'll create the other jam files.

> > I'll now will try to recreate a jam file for jpeg, png, and tiff based
> > on what you created with zlib.jam. Do you foresee any complications?
> >
>
You'll need tests.  I've just committed some
> basic tests for zlib.
>
>
I found zlib.py and I suppose those are the tests you mentioned above. How
do you run those tests?