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

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-10 03:02:15

Caleb Epstein writes:
> 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.

FYI, your original markup ("someprefix*somesuffix") is now supported.

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Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering