Re: [jamboost] testing.jam default to "test"?

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-05 14:14:09

Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [2003-01-05] David Abrahams wrote:
>
>>Rene Rivera <grafik666_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>>> [2003-01-05] Rene Rivera wrote:
>>>
>>>>[2003-01-05] David Abrahams wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would it be possible to change the default for testing.jam runs to
>>>>"test"?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did it that way so that people could put tests and regular targets
>>>>>> in the same Jamfile, and tests would not be built by default. It can
>>>>>> easily be overridden by sticking
>>>>>>
>>>>>> DEPENDS all : test ;
>>>>>>
>>>>>> In the Jamfile. 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Done.
>>>>
>>>>And this change just bit me :-( It turns out the date_time library has
>>> tests
>>>>in its build/Jamfile. Which now get run, and built, when doing a top
> level
>>>>build.
>>>
>>> OK, never mind, it wasn't this change that caused the date_time tests to
>>> run. It's just that they are defined by the library :-( Perhaps someone
>>> should move those out of the regular build/Jamfile.
>>
>>It shouldn't matter where they are. Test targets don't get built
>>unless explicitly requested.
>
> Found the problem. The date_time library is using "unit-test" rule to define
> some test in it's build/Jamfile. It also adds some number of examples that
> get built.

It's time to rip out the unit-test rule. Or, maybe we should just have
it dispatch to the run rule from testing.jam.

-- 
David Abrahams
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