Re: [Boost-build] How to run inspect as part of a test-suite?

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] How to run inspect as part of a test-suite?
From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-12-19 11:48:19

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Vladimir Prus <ghost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 19.12.2013 19:13, Beman Dawes wrote:
>
>> The inspect program (https://github.com/boostorg/inspect) does a nice
>> job of detecting various library boo-boos, but the traditional use
>> (run report for all libs, post on a web site somewhere) is ineffective.
>> No one looks at the report and it isn't a part of regular library
>> development and maintenance workflow.
>>
>> Since inspect runs fine on an individual library, I'd like to add running
>> it to the test-suite for libraries I maintain. How would I do this?
>>
>> If running inspect as part of my regular tests turned out to be helpful,
>> many other libraries might follow suit and eventually we might even
>> require it for all libraries. Thus while it would be useful if inspect
>> was rebuilt whenever it or its dependencies change, we would want the
>> check for change and rebuild if needed on a once per b2 invocation basis,
>> not once for each library that uses inspect.
>>
>
> Beman,
>
> the attached appear to almost work, except that inspect does not run in
> the current directory. Can you play with this one
> before we go on fixing the remaining issue?
>

Will do.

Thanks for the fast response.

--Beman