Testing is broken (Was: White rectangles in test results)

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (alexy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-25 00:42:50

Aleksey Gurtovoy writes:
> David Abrahams writes:
>>> Okay; I hadn't read Misha's log in that thread carefully before, but
>>> there's something screwy going on in the BBv1 code. There should be
>>> no const_argument.pyd targets there at all; the only pyds should be
>>> const_argument_ext.pyd. So I'm trying to track that down now and
>>> hopefully will be able to check in a fix sometime soon.
>>
>> Darn, I hate working on BBv1! Well, it's done. 
>
> Thank you for addressing this! It's been an annoying problem.
>
>> We'll see how it works out tonight.
>
> Keeping our fingers crossed.

Unfortunately, it turns out things didn't work out that well:

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Building Boost.Iostreams with bzip2 support disabled. ECHO To enable bzip2, consult the Boost.Iostreams documentation
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Building Boost.Iostreams with zlib and gzip support disabled.
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Building Boost.Regex with the optional Unicode/ICU support disabled.
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(and if you don't know what ICU is then you probably don't need it).
MFC/ATL regex wrappers will be tested when building with VC7.1
MFC/ATL regex wrappers will be tested when building with VC7
boost-test(RUN) "any/any_to_ref_test" : "libs\any\test\any_to_ref_test.cpp"

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boost-test(COMPILE) "python/borrowed" : "libs\python\test\borrowed.cpp"
boost-test(COMPILE) "python/string_literal" : "libs\python\test\string_literal.cpp"
boost-test(RUN) "python/result" : "libs\python\test\result.cpp"
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boost-test(RUN) "python/pointer_type_id_test" : "libs\python\test\pointer_type_id_test.cpp"
boost-test(RUN) "python/destroy_test" : "libs\python\test\destroy_test.cpp"
boost-test(COMPILE) "python/indirect_traits_test" : "libs\python\test\indirect_traits_test.cpp"
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C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\testing.jam:357: in run-test
*** argument error
* rule test-executable(PYD) ( target-to-test )
* called with: ( <@boost!libs!python!test\iterator_ext.pyd\vc-6_5-stlport\debug\threading-multi>iterator_ext.pyd <@boost!libs!python!test\input_iterator.pyd\vc-6_5-stlport\debug\threading-multi>input_iterator.pyd )
* extra argument <@boost!libs!python!test\input_iterator.pyd\vc-6_5-stlport\debug\threading-multi>input_iterator.pyd
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\python.jam:532:see definition of rule 'test-executable(PYD)' being called
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\testing.jam:255: in build-test
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:1968: in subvariant-target
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:2056: in main-target
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\boost-base.jam:1369: in declare-local-target
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\testing.jam:64: in boost-test
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\python.jam:519: in boost-python-runtest
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\libs\python\test\Jamfile:72: in bpl-test
..\libs\python\test\Jamfile:149: in load-jamfiles
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1760: in SubInclude
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools/build/v1\allyourbase.jam:1348: in subinclude
Jamfile:47: in load-jamfiles
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\tools\build\v1\bootstrap.jam:21: in boost-build
C:\Users\Administrator\boost\main\boost\boost-build.jam:16: in module scope

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering