Reporting library build failure

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-25 06:19:40

One of the challenges remaining for bjam-based regression testing is being 
able to detect that a test has failed because a library it depends on 
failed to build, and to report the compiler or other error messages which 
indicate why the library build failed.

The current system already provides the error messages. What is missing is 
a notification like:

"x failed because it depends on y, which failed".

x and y are the target directory paths.

x can be omitted if the message is part of the residue left in directory x; 
it is only needed if the message is in the bjam log output.

The exact format of the message is unimportant as long as it is unambiguous 
and reasonably easy to extract x and y from it. It does need to work even 
if a test is dependent on several libraries, and more than one fails to 
build.

Is it reasonable to ask for this with V1 or is it something that will have 
to be deferred until V2?

--Beman