Re: [Boost-build] alias/test-suite/inline targets changes

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-10-18 01:43:54

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 18:49, Rene Rivera wrote:
> Eric Niebler wrote:
> > Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >> I've just tried this Jamfile, and it works as expected -- only the first
> >> testcase runs. Do you have up-to-date tree? Is this CVS HEAD, or
> >> RC_1_34_0?
> >>
> >> What's the revision of tools/build/v2/tools/testing.jam? It should be
> >> 1.45
> >
> > I just tried again and it works! I don't know what I was doing wrong
> > before. Sorry for the noise, and thanks.
>
> Is this related to
> <https://zigzag.cs.msu.su:7813/boost.build/ticket/68>? If so, does it
> partially or fully address the issue?

It's somewhat related. Now you can use 'explicit name-of-test-suite ; ' and no 
test will be run unless you name testsuite explicitly.

I'm not quite sure about V1's behaviour where test-suites were explicit by 
default. That differs from every other target.

Also, IIRC, V1 has a special 'test' target that is not declared explicitly, 
and which results in building all tests.  Again, I'm not sure it's good idea 
to implicitly define taregts.

So, what do you think is the right behaviour to have in V2?

- Volodya