Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [testing] More failed test results with no meaningful content

Subject: Re: [boost] [EXTERNAL] [testing] More failed test results with no meaningful content
From: John Maddock (boost.regex_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-07 05:10:23

On 06/02/2014 19:33, Belcourt, Kenneth wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 12:22 PM, John Maddock wrote:
>
>> For example: http://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/marshall-mac-boost-bin-v2-libs-math-test-test_igamma_inva_float-test-clang-darwin-tot-debug-link-static.html leads to a successfully compiled file if you follow the links.
>>
>> Anyone any idea what's going on here, and is there any way to make this reporting more reliable?  Frankly the results will get widely ignored if no one can see what's actually going on.
>
> We made a recent change to limit how much output is captured from test targets to 4k per target.
 > We can bump this up though it may adversely impact some testers who 
have more limited bandwidth.
 > How about 16k per target and let us know if that's still insufficient?

I don't think that is the issue - it's not that the output is truncated 
- it's that there is *no output at all*.  Or rather that the link for 
the "failure" leads to a file which did actually compile correctly.

John.