Re: [jamboost] Fwd: Re: Boost.Threads and Regression Testing

From: David Abrahams (david.abrahams_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-02-28 01:17:25

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From: "bill_kempf" <williamkempf_at_[hidden]>

> Yes. Now I guess the point (beyond the link bug in the build system
> for <dll>)

OK I fixed that one. Turns out it was mostly my fault.

Your test seems to be crashing with CWPro7 and MinGW. It works with msvc and
borland. It doesn't compile with intel 5 or 6, and seems to run forever with
Cygwin.

> is that I think a build section/rule variable should be
> included in the regression tests. It's important that I be able to
> insure the various subvariants compile, link, and pass runtime
> tests.

Yeah, probably.

> This will become more important if I can turn pthread-win32
> support into a variant on Windows platforms.

That should probably be a build property, not a variant.

Regards,
Dave