Re: [build] Option to have b2 show stdout from target run?

From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2019-06-24 12:02:07

AMDG

On 6/24/19 5:36 AM, James E. King III via Boost wrote:
> Currently b2 only shows output when a test fails unexpectedly.  If I
> want to build and run a test and see the stdout from the test all in
> one command, is there a b2 option that would do that?  For example,
> the output from predef's "info_as_cpp" test is useful, and I'd like to
> have a single command line that builds it, runs it, and shows stdout.
> I don't see a way to do this with b2, even with the -d+n flags.
> 

It's controlled by testing.jam and is unaffected by -d.
The output for each test is written to a file.
(e.g. .../info_as_cpp.run)

> I can do it this way, but it's fragile:
> 
> $(b2 -a -ox info_as_cpp | grep 'gcc.link' | cut -d' ' -f2)
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe