Re: [boost] Volunteers needed to run regression test reporting

Subject: Re: [boost] Volunteers needed to run regression test reporting
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-20 00:19:15

AMDG

On 01/19/2014 04:17 PM, Jason Roehm wrote:
> 
>> On Jan 19, 2014, at 4:29 PM, Johan Baltié <johan.baltie_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm running the regression test on my personal box (i5-3337U 1.8GHz running
>> Windows 8/cygwin) before moving to a bigger one at work, and it has been
>> working for 24 hours and has not finished yet. As Phil noted the fact that
>> the regression test is using one core does not help. Is mono-core the
>> expected policy ?
> 
> By default everything will run a single job at a time. You can pass the argument --bjam-options="-jN" to the run.py script. This will tell bjam to use N parallel jobs. This at least will parallelize the build process. Not sure if the running of the tests themselves will happen in parallel or not; maybe someone else can chime in. 
> 

Running of the tests is integrated into the build
system.  It's not a separate step.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe