Re: [Boost-testing] Re: [jamboost] [regression testing] BBv2?

From: Rene Rivera (grafik.list_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-13 11:10:42

Caleb Epstein wrote:
> On 4/13/05, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
>>Right at the moment I'm tracking down the remaining differences between V1
>>and V2 test results on Linux. Once that done -- hopefully in a day or two
>>-- it would be really great if you could run tests with V2 to verify that
>>my system is not the only one where V2 works OK.
> 
> I'd be happy to run tests w/BBv2 also, especially if the
> results-collection will work properly with parallel builds (e.g. -jX).
> Currently it takes >12 hours to do a single regression testing run on
> a 24-way SPARC machine I have access to. If parallel builds worked, I
> could get these done in a considerably shorter time.
> 
> I suspect this hasn't been tackled yet though.

Not the underlying issue which is that when bjam invokes commands with 
-jX there's nothing preventing the output from all happening at once. 
And hence not being able to tell what output goes with which command. Or 
of having bjam send the output to something other than stdout/stderr.

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