Re: [Boost-build] Trunk regression

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Trunk regression
From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-11-17 02:39:47

On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 07:39:11 Steven Watanabe wrote:
> AMDG
> 
> On 11/16/2011 12:51 AM, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Steven,
> > 
> > it appears your recent commit:
> > 
> > 	r75502 | steven_watanabe | 2011-11-16 07:00:54 +0400 (Wed, 16 Nov 2011) | 1 line
> > 
> > 	Fix memory leaks.  Make sure that newstr and copystr are always used as needed.
> > 
> > has introduced serious testresult regiressions. I am on Ubuntu 11.10 and the test
> > results are 85 PASS, 10 FAIL, much worse than usual. The first failing test is core_d12,
> > which is very basic functionality test. If I back out your change, I get back to test results
> > of 93/2, which is expected.
> > 
> > For avoidance of doubt, Jam was built without Python support and tests were run using Jam codebase,
> > not the Python port.
> > 
> > Do you think you can investigate this problem?
> > 
> 
> Fixed in r75510.  The problem only appears if MATCH is never used.

Thanks; everything is back to normal for me now.

- Volodya