Re: [Boost-testing] Re: Whitespace (again)

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-12 18:31:21

At Saturday 2005-03-12 15:40, you wrote:
>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will treat everything as though it's outdated.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?

I don't know, but I've uncommented the del *.obj /s and the del *.exe /s

we'll see how that works

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