Re: [Boost-testing] Re: range\config.hpp and regression tests broken

From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-04-18 05:21:26

>> unicode_iterator_test is failing at runtime with gcc-2.95.3, but passes 
>> when run locally on my machine (I'm fairly sure that the error shown may 
>> have been a real issue at some point, but shouldn't be now IMO).
>
> The test binary for unicode_iterator_test/gcc-2.95.3 and the associated 
> XML file on my Machine date back to 2004-02-15. Why doesn't it get rebuilt 
> when there was a code change to fix the errors? Could this be a result of 
> a failure in building some depend code which doesn't cause the XML file to 
> get deleted (that's the only idea I have)?

If I remember correctly this one was down to a temporary problem in 
Boost.Test: the changes to the Boost.Test headers (the macros changed) 
should have triggered a rebuild.  I have seen before though that changes to 
library dependencies don't always trigger rebuilds.

> I'll delete the build- and the test-tree after the current run.

Thanks Martin.

John.