Re: [Boost-build] Boost Build creating a couple of invaliddirectories during test run

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-08-12 01:37:04

Vladimir Prus wrote:
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>
>> I've recently running all the boost tests in order to test my library
>> status facilty before checking it in. In the course of doing this
>> I've noticed that
>> in a couple of cases, bjam doesn't create the proper test directory.
>> Here are the tests:
>>
>> a) program_options/test/conver
>
> Note that a target by this name does not exist. There's 'test_convert'
> target though. That target is 'exe' target, so it's not a 'test',
> formally speaking, therefore no 'test name' is expected in the target
> path.

I get a directory 
bin.v2/libs/program_options/test/msvc-7.1/debug/link-static/threading-multi

note the absence of test_convert.test.

My reading of process_jam_log.cpp suggests that this is not expected. The 
test-name is
determined to be blank. Is this OK and should I just ignore it? or should 
something be done about it.  I'm not sure what the point would be if the 
results are generated without a corresponding test name.  I wonder if in 
fact this is what the authors of the Jamfile.v2 intended or it is an 
oversight that should be addressed.

Robert Ramey