RE: [Boost-testing] Re: [wave] Tru64 failures hopefully fixed.

From: Hartmut Kaiser (hartmut.kaiser_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-17 03:00:25

Markus Schöpflin wrote:

> >>I just committed a fix for the program_options library, which 
> >>hopefully fixes the wave failures for Tru64. I didn't run the wave 
> >>tests manually but I'm confident that the next regression run cycle 
> >>will show an all green for Tru64.
> 
> > Thanks a lot!
> 
> Seems I spoke too soon. :-/ There are still some failures 
> when running the regression tests. When looking at the errors 
> from gcc-3.4.3 (see http://tinyurl.com/a7rsx), it strongly 
> smells like some 64 bit issue. Maybe using a long instead of 
> int32_t or something like that. Or maybe the tests are flawed?

Yes, the tests are flawed. I'm currently not sure what to do about this,
though. Will have to think a bit. 

WRT the current result on the True64 platform: there is something really
broken and I have no clue, what happened, especially since it already worked
there (perhaps except the 64Bit issues above).

Regards Hartmut