Re: [Boost-build] run versus unit-test

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] run versus unit-test
From: Ian Emmons (iemmons_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-28 09:48:11

Steven,

I would greatly appreciate it if you had the time to respond to my  
original query on this thread (which is quite different from Anatoli's).

Thanks,

Ian

On May 27, 2009, at 9:43 AM, Steven Watanabe wrote:

> AMDG
>
> Anatoli Sakhnik wrote:
>> I wish I could switch to the rule ‘run’ either. Our code tends to
>> crash, deadlock and show other interesting things sometimes. So it’s
>> very convenient for us to have already built executable binary to
>> investigate it with gdb. Using the rule ‘run’, I needed to modify the
>> appropriate Jamfile, and build the binary in the second pass. That is
>> very inconvenient.
>>
>> But the rule ‘unit-test’ prepares the binary without additional
>> efforts. That’s why I’m going to use ‘unit-test’ in our new projects.
>>
> The <preserve-test-targets>on feature will prevent the
> executable from being deleted by run.
>
> In Christ,
> Steven Watanabe