Re: [Boost-build] Future development

From: Bill Hoffman (bill.hoffman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-12 23:16:44

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Bill Hoffman wrote:
>   
>> An initial cache file could be the same as the
>> user-config.jam file.   I have not used jam, but I assume you have one
>> of these per compiler.
>>     
>
> For your info... An example user-config.jam 
> <http://beta.boost.org/development/tests/trunk/RSI%20Droid.html>. It's 
> the one I use on the Linux test machine.
>
>
>   
OK, so in the CMake world, that would be closer to ctest -S build 
script, that we
use to populate our dashboards.   Here is an example:

http://www.cmake.org/Testing/Sites/grayson.kitware/Win32-nmake80/20071013-0100-Nightly/Notes.html

When you run ctest -S on that script it will update cvs, run cmake, 
build the software, run the tests, and send
the results to the dashboard server.  You could use it as just a build 
script and leave out the update
and submission stuff.   It would be a closer fit to the 
user-config.jam.  It has the machine specific
stuff like paths to compilers and versions of things like python in 
it.   You would have a separate one
for each compiler, but you could use the include() command to share the 
script and only set the compiler
and include the script.

-Bill