[Boost-testing] Re: [iostreams] ATTENTION all Windows testers

From: Jonathan Turkanis (technews_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-24 15:13:37

Rene Rivera wrote:
> Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>
>> Two of the iostreams regression tests, gzip_test.cpp and
>> zlib_test.cpp rely on the third-party open source library zlib. In
>> addition, bzip2_test.cpp relies on the third-party open source
>> library libbz2.
>
> Ideally those tests and features would be disabled if the libraries
> are not available.

As far as I know there's no standard location for either zlib source or binary
on Windows, so I don't see how to do this unless I disable the compression
filters by default on Windows.

Jonathan