Re: Fwd: [Boost-testing] How to disable test on specific compiler

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-28 08:49:17

Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Monday 27 June 2005 19:36, David Abrahams wrote:
>> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> > Joaquín Mª López Muñoz <joaquin_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >> Just in case jamboost regulars don't visit the Boost-testing mailing
>> >> list...
>> >>
>> >> From: Toon Knapen
>> >>
>> >> As previously reported, compiling the test-file ptr_array.cpp of the
>> >> boost.ptr_container library makes the IBM compiler hang.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> Is there a way to disable (the compilation of) this test on vacpp or to
>> >> disable all tests of the boost.ptr_container library because this
>> >> problem makes that I can't update the regression status for vacpp at all
>>
>> Oh, as usual, the jamboost list is stripping lines containing angle
>> brackets :(
>>
>> Just add
>>
>> (vacpp)(*)(build)no
>>
>> to the requirements, changing parens to angle brackets.
>>
>> Given the importance of angle brackets around here, I think it's time
>> to move the list. Any arguments?
>
> I'm -0.
>
> 1. I never run into this "jamboost strips angle brackets" problem. Am I just 
> lucky? 

Maybe. Try writing what I did above using angles instead of parens.

> Or somebody is posting in HTML format?

No. emacs/Gnus/message-mail doesn't produce HTML.

> 2. Moving the list is a nuisance: everybody has to resubscribe or somebody has 
> to resubscribe them automatically, email addresses must be changed 
> everywhere, and so on.

Yep, pain in the behind. But I have had three messages mangled in the
past week; it's getting to the point of being unacceptable.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
www.boost-consulting.com