Re: [boost] Help with understanding regression test results

Subject: Re: [boost] Help with understanding regression test results
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-06-30 10:54:45

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Andrzej Krzemienski <akrzemi1_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> 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 Just checked, and Math has out-of-date failures from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'?
>

I show the same thing on mine...all the symlinks under boost point to a
copy of the same files that reside in the convert repository:
https://github.com/boostorg/convert/tree/develop/include/boost/optional

Tom