Re: [Boost-build] Recent commits broke the link-fail testing on Windows

Subject: Re: [Boost-build] Recent commits broke the link-fail testing on Windows
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-01-14 21:45:28

AMDG

On 01/14/2018 02:25 PM, Antony Polukhin via Boost-build wrote:
> 
> I've started receiving "Tests failed" warnings from CI recently.
> Here's an example:
> https://ci.appveyor.com/project/apolukhin/type-index/build/1.64.45-develop
> 
> All the the tests passed (including tests that must fail to link), but
> there's a message "...failed updating 2 targets..." and return code is
> not 0.
> 

  I don't think this is the fault of link-fail.  The output
shows that the target successfully linked, which means
that it should fail.  It's more likely that I messed up
somewhere and the object files are compiled with the wrong options.

> Looks like the issue is related to link-fail targets in tests
> https://github.com/boostorg/type_index/blob/develop/test/Jamfile.v2#L57-L59
> 

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe