Re: [Boost-build] bjam crashing on trunk regression test runner VeecoFTC

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] bjam crashing on trunk regression test runner VeecoFTC
From: David Deakins (ddeakins_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-08-06 08:50:54

On 7/20/2012 9:34 AM, David Deakins wrote:
> On 7/20/2012 4:15 AM, Jurko Gospodnetić wrote:
>>
>> Can you reproduce the crash? And find out more precise steps that cause
>> it? E.g. is it crashing on bjam's build, on internal Boost Jam/Build
>> tests, or on some concrete Boost library test being run with it? Is it
>> random? The bug mentioned earlier was random and was caused by multiple
>> parallel build actions - one creating a temporary file and deleting it
>> while a the main thread detected the temporary file and then was missing
>> some error handling when that file could not be found on the system a
>> moment later.
>
> I've seen the crash happen at least twice now after running the
> regression tests, so I think it is reproducible.  I haven't attempted to
> simplify the steps required to make it happen.  I'll try to look into
> that.  From looking at the bjam.log file, it is almost my impression
> that all the regression tests have completed and the crash happens when
> bjam tries to exit.  But I need to confirm that.
>

Ok, I think this is resolved now.  The crash turned out to be happening 
during the Boost.Build tests which are run separately from the main 
regression tests.  The 'default-bjam' setting that was specified here 
caused the system to find an ancient copy of bjam that was installed 
elsewhere on the regression test machine (rather than the new one that 
it built).  Because it was using this ancient bjam to run the 
Boost.Build tests, it was crashing.  I update this bjam executable to a 
new one and now everything is running smoothly.

Thanks,
-Dave