Re: [jamboost] Patch for test-system to support testing in existing directories

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-15 11:28:08

Hi Niklaus,

> Here is my patch. On Cygwin there were about four tests that failed before
> and after applying this patch.
>
> On my Powerbook (GNU/Linux with Debian testing) most Unittests fail before
> and after after complaining that they could not find the gcc toolset. I
> thought that getting a fresh copy from CVS, building bjam in jam_src, then
> going to the v2/test-directory should result in a working environment for
> tests. Or did I miss something. python test_all.py gcc didn't help neither.
> Both gcc and g++ are installed and have version 3.3.5.

Did you add "using gcc ; " in user-config.jam, or in test-config.jam?

> Would it be helpful to setup a small daily cron job which fetches the
> latest CVS, rebuilds bjam, runs the test and E-mails me the output, so that
> I could forward it after the interesting aspects after a visual inspection
> to this list? Is there somewhere such a script? (I cannot guarantee that I
> would take a look at the output every day.)

Victor is doing that to V2/msvc and that's rather helpful. What systems can 
you run tests at?

> Could please somebody revise this patch and commit if it is okay? Feel free
> to suggest more improvements.

Did you look at the patch? ;-) It touches every single line, so it's very hard 
to tell what you did modify. I guess you (or your editor), modified line 
ending for the file. But anyway, since I did not modified the files recently, 
it applies OK. I plan to apply the patch tomorrow.

- Volodya