Re: [Boost-build] tools/build/v2 tests causing release branch reporting to fail

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] tools/build/v2 tests causing release branch reporting to fail
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-01-12 16:36:26

AMDG

Beman Dawes wrote:
> Noel Belcourt has finally tracked down why the branches/release 
> regression reporting is failing, and it is because the Boost build 
> test results from the test runners contain invalid XML. This in turn 
> causes the report generation to fail.
>
> Noel reports getting an error from all release results.
>
> #     target doesn't exists, building
> #             Merging "/incoming/branches/release/
> processed/Sandia-darwin-ppc.xml" with expected results...
> #               Skipping 
> "/tmp/kbelco/reporting_release/release/incoming/branches/release/processed/Sandia-darwin-ppc.xml" 
> due to errors 
> (/tmp/kbelco/reporting_release/release/incoming/branches/release/processed/Sandia-darwin-ppc.xml:97765:19: 
> not well-formed (invalid token))
>
> The errors are of this form:
>
> failure {{{
> "['bjam', 
> '-sBOOST_BUILD_PATH="/Volumes/Application/scratch/kbelco/boost/tools/build/v2/test"', 
> '-d0', '--quiet', 'toolset=darwin-4.0.1', 
> '--test-config="/Volumes/Application/scratch/kbelco/boost/tools/build/v2/test/test-config.jam"', 
> '--ignore-toolset-requirements']" returned 1
> }}}
> reason {{{
> error returned by bjam
> }}}
> STDOUT {{{
> Generating a CPP file...
> ...skipped <pOther/bin/darwin-4.0.1/debug>other-obj.o for lack of 
> <pOther/bin/darwin-4.0.1/debug-object(c-scanner)@107>other-obj.cpp...
> ...failed updating 1 target...
>
> }}}
>
> I've confirmed his results, and further find that the reporting runs 
> OK if the invalid XML text is removed.
>
> Perhaps something didn't get merged to release branch when the build 
> tests were added to trunk?

Right.  The last change to release Boost.Build was on November 9th.
The problem is that the release branch Boost.Build does not know
how to generate the proper xml output.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe