[Boost-testing] Re: [patch] expected-failures-markup.xml

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-06 17:18:12

Caleb Epstein writes:
>> +        <mark-expected-failures>
>> +            <test name="*_lib"/>
>> +            <toolset name="gcc-*-sunos"/>
>> +            <note author="Caleb Epstein">
>> +               SunOS does not provide static versions of -lrt or
>> +               -lthread, and gcc -static refuses to link with any
>> +               shared objects, so these tests don't compile.
>> +            </note>
>> +        </mark-expected-failures>
>>      </library>
>
> I comitted this patch several days ago, yet the *_lib tests in the
> Boost.Thread library don't seem to be treated as expected failures for
> gcc-3_4_3-sunos.  Did I not do this correctly?

Unfortunately, the regular expression you've used in toolset name
(star in the middle) is not supported at the moment:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/109180.

Misha and I were planning a mini-sprint to fix a number of outstanding
report issues tomorrow, I'll put this on our list.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering