Re: [Boost-build] Future development

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-06 19:27:04

On Oct 6, 2007, at 9:14 AM, Rene Rivera wrote:

> Douglas Gregor wrote:
>> On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Rene Rivera wrote:
>>> Does it support test
>>> chaining?
>>
>> I don't understand what this means.
>
> Can you write a test such that it depends on another test passing  
> for it
> to run at all. For example we currently use this, or rather Robert R.
> uses it, to prevent wide char tests from running on platform that fail
> to have wide char support.

Oh, sure. Just detect at configure time whether there is wide  
character support, and only add those tests when wide character  
support is available.

        - Doug