Re: [Boost-build] Should parrellel builds work?

From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-10-22 11:18:07

John Maddock wrote:
> I seem to remember that someone (Dave A.?) fixed bjam/bbv2 so that parallel 
> builds of the regression runs should work OK?

Don't know if Dave said it... But I certainly have.

> I'm asking because many of the IBM xlc result failures have no error message 
> associated with them.  Looking at the error log files posted to 
> ftp://fx.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/trunk/logs I see things like:
> 
[...]
> vacpp.compile.c++ 
> /home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_intrusive_text_archive_dll.test/vacpp/debug/test_non_intrusive.o
> 
>     xlC -c   -DBOOST_ALL_DYN_LINK=1 -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_ARCHIVE_TEST=text_archive.hpp 
>  -DBOOST_LIB_DIAGNOSTIC=1 -qcpluscmt -qNOOPTimize -qnoinline -g -qfullpath -qfuncsect 
>  -qeh -qrtti -I".."  -o 
> "/home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_intrusive_text_archive_dll.test/vacpp/debug/test_non_intrusive.o" 
> "../libs/serialization/test/test_non_intrusive.cpp"
> 
> MkDir1 
> /home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_intrusive_xml_warchive.test/vacpp/debug
> 
>     mkdir 
> "/home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_intrusive_xml_warchive.test/vacpp/debug"
> 
> MkDir1 
> /home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_default_ctor_text_archive_dll.test
> 
>     mkdir 
> "/home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_default_ctor_text_archive_dll.test"
> 
> ...failed vacpp.compile.c++ 
> /home/ccambly/boost_regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/serialization/test/test_non_intrusive_binary_archive.test/vacpp/debug/test_non_intrusive.o...
> 
> So it looks like the error messages are getting disconnected from the 
> failure message?
> 
> The tests are run with -j16 I believe, so is this to be expected, or should 
> this work now?

It should work... But it does depend on which version of bjam is used.

> Any special requirements on building bjam or on the C std 
> lib for this to work correctly?

AFAIK, only POSIX stuff.

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