Re: [jamboost] Increasing reliability of main regression test

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-04 20:48:40

Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:

> At 06:04 PM 1/4/2003, Douglas Gregor wrote:
>
> >I've recently added support into the Boost documentation format for
> >expressing
> >testsuites directly. From the XML representation of the testsuite, I have 
>
> >written an XSL stylesheet that generates a Jamfile for boost/status (the
> >new file boost/status/testsuites.jam is generated this way), and I could
> >easily dump the information in another format (e.g., a simplified XML
> >format for compiler_status.cpp to read).
>
> I don't think we are going to need that; if Dave is successful adding the 
> run-type to the current ----dump-tests output we are home free. Converting 
> to the subinclude form should be a big win for everybody:
>
> subinclude $(BOOST_ROOT)/libs/whatever/test ;

On second thought, I think subinclude has to use a relative path:

subinclude ../libs/whatever/test ;

It's even shorter when you're in the status directory. As a matter of
fact, I'm pretty sure we can make it automatically find all such
directories with a Jamfile in them, and subinclude them automatically.

-- 
David Abrahams
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