Re: [jamboost] Reporting library build failure

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-07-25 08:48:50

At 07:24 AM 7/25/2002, David Abrahams wrote:

>From: "Beman Dawes" <bdawes_at_[hidden]>
>
>
>> 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.
>
>The system already says "skipping <x> due to missing <y>"
>The paths are not /exactly/ represented, but you can figure them out from
><x> and <y>.

Ah! I'd missed those messages in the clutter.

It will take a bit of deduction to eliminate the "skipped" messages 
unrelated to library builds, but that isn't a problem for now.

Thanks!

--Beman