[Boost-testing] Re: [iostreams][Beman] how to mark expected failuresfor gcc Windows

From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-30 09:35:11

You might want to consider Altering the Jamfile so that the tests known to
fail - e.g. gcc-cygwin/mingw etc. are skipped.  The serialization platform
does this to avoid wasted time and misleading failure messages.

Robert Ramey

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Hi Beman,
>
> I'm trying to clear up the remaining iostreams failures. I'd like to
> mark the two wide stream tests as expected failures for your gcc
> toolset, but if I do this they'll be marked as expected failures for
> all the other toolsets which are just called "gcc", even though they
> pass on Unix/Linux. Is there any chance you change the toolset name
> -- to cygwin, for example?
>
> Jonathan