Re: [boost] Help with understanding regression test results

Subject: Re: [boost] Help with understanding regression test results
From: Andrzej Krzemienski (akrzemi1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-30 07:20:48

2014-06-30 12:29 GMT+02:00 John Maddock <boost.regex_at_[hidden]>:

> 7 days after, teeks99-03g and teeks99-04a still fail and error messages
>> refer to the code that has not been in 'develop' for a long while. There
>> are more environments that report references to a no-longer existent code.
>> It appears as though the sources are downloaded from the different source
>> than https://github.com/boostorg/optional.
>>
>
> Just checked, and Math has out-of-date failures from
> teeks99-01a-win2008-64on64 as well.

I am not sure if this is related, but this is the response from Niklas, who
is hosting the regression on QNX:

The symbolic links in $BOOST_ROOT/boost created by "bjam headers" before
> the build starts point to the wrong files:
>
> $ ls -l /extra/boost_regression/x86/boost_root/boost/optional*
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 boost     users            42 Jun 30 07:10
> /extra/boost_regression/x86/boost_root/boost/optional.hpp ->
> .../libs/convert/include/boost/optional.hpp
>
> /extra/boost_regression/x86/boost_root/boost/optional:
> total 4
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 boost     users            65 Jun 30 07:10
> bad_optional_access.hpp ->
> .../../libs/convert/include/boost/optional/bad_optional_access.hpp
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 boost     users            54 Jun 30 07:10 optional.hpp ->
> .../../libs/convert/include/boost/optional/optional.hpp
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 boost     users            58 Jun 30 07:10 optional_fwd.hpp
> -> .../../libs/convert/include/boost/optional/optional_fwd.hpp
> lrwxrwxrwx  1 boost     users            57 Jun 30 07:10 optional_io.hpp
> -> .../../libs/convert/include/boost/optional/optional_io.hpp
>

Can anyone help me understand where it is controlled which links are
pointed to which files when I run 'b2 headers'?

Regards,
&rzej