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

From: Victor A. Wagner Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-25 00:40:49

At 11:44 2005-05-24, Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
>Hi,
>
>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.
>
>I'd like to ask all Windows testers to download the latest zlib and libbzip
>sources and configure two environment variables so that the tests will build.
>
>zlib is available here: www.zlib.net/zlib122.zip  (additional download 
>locations
>and archive formats are listed at http://www.gzip.org/zlib/)
>
>libbz2 is available here: www.bzip.org/1.0.3/bzip2-1.0.3.tar.gz
>
>Please set the following two bjam variables:
>
>ZLIB_SOURCE = path to the zlib source directory
>
>(If you used the above download, the directory should be called zlib122. It's
>the directory that contains the source files adler32.c, compress.c, ...)
>
>BZIP2_SOURCE = path to the libbz2 source directory.
>
>(If you used the above download, the directory should be called bzip2-1.0.3.
>It's the directory that contains the source files blocksort.c, bzip2.c, ...)
>
>I'm sorry I waited so long to make this announcement; I didn't want to have to
>revise the configuration information later. I was hoping to set up the 
>Jamfiles
>to test building zlib and bzip2 from the sources and linking to prebuilt
>libraries, but I've run out of time.
>
>Best Regards,
>Jonathan

Done.  "Nothing obvious happenes"

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