[Boost-testing] Re: Whitespace (again)

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 17:40:59

Victor A. Wagner Jr. writes:
> At Saturday 2005-03-12 10:19, you wrote:
>>"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
>> > At Friday 2005-03-11 19:09, you wrote:
>> >>"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > If I remember correctly, I put the del *.xml into the script because
>> >> > if I didn't, and the tests blew up spectacularly, the xml wouldn't be
>> >> > deleted, the old one would still be there and nobody would be the
>> >> > wiser until someone goes "how come Rudbek's ruing blah test just
>> >> > fine?" then I panic and discover that indeed, that some test is
>> >> > crashing so hard that the test report is inaccurate.
>> >> > I'd prefer _not_ to have to build every test every time...the run time
>> >> > goes up appreciably.
>> >> > so... what's the solution?
>> >> > to quit deleting .xml files and hope the original problem is fixed?
>> >> > delete all the .exe only?
>> >> > what are .test files?  _should_ I be deleting them??
>> >> > "Enquiring minds want to know"
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >>Victor,
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>Due to many reasons incremental testing is _not_ reliable and there is
>> >>no quick way to fix that. The list of problems we have with
>> >>incremental testing is on http://tinyurl.com/5mk7l. Any help would be
>> >>appreciated. All four of the issues require a more than introductory
>> >>knowledge of BBv1 - for sure certainly more than I have.
>> >>
>> >>It would be nice if somebody would take on some of the issues, because
>> >>the learning curve for me would be the same as for any bjam novice.
>> >
>> > so how do I do regression runs that ARE reliable?
>>
>>If you want to be absolutely sure, pass the -a option to bjam and it
>>will treat everything as though it's outdated.
>
> yeah, but regression.py is handling the calls to bjam not me.

'regression.py' allows you to pass options to bjam through
conveniently named "--bjam-options" option. However, I'm not sure I
understand Dave's suggestion. Is passing "-a" any different than
deleting all the binaries -- e.g. doing "full" run?

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering