Re: [boost] [testing] Add a tester with hidden visibility

Subject: Re: [boost] [testing] Add a tester with hidden visibility
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-05-08 11:44:03

On Friday 08 May 2015 08:21:58 Robert Ramey wrote:
> Andrey Semashev-2 wrote
> 
> > On Thursday 07 May 2015 09:22:26 Robert Ramey wrote:
> >> The original question suggested that if a tester changed the jam file so
> >> that the switch gcc visibility=hidden was enabled then tests would pass.
> > 
> > I did not suggest that the tests would immediately pass. But I would like
> > to
> > have such tester - for users to see which libraries have problems, and for
> > library maintainers to be able to fix those problems.
> 
> If the jam file includes the visibility=hidden switch then ALL the testers
> will be using it by default.

No, the flag can be added in user-config.jam, on the tester's site.