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

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-06 18:57:21

On 5/6/05, Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 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.

OK.  In the meantime I'll change it to match my toolset name explicitly.

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Caleb Epstein
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