Re: [Boost-testing] Testers making CVS changes

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-06-17 06:08:13

"Victor A. Wagner Jr." <vawjr_at_[hidden]> writes:

>>Was it only that one test that was failing?  We could easily add an
>><asynch-exceptions> feature and set it to "on" in that test's
>>requirements.
>
> there was (at the time) only one failure showing non-green in the vc-8_0 
> (maybe it was before the date-time problem was marked expected failure) 
> results.
> I don't know how easy it would be to add it to a specific instance since 
> (from my brief reading of the /EH options page in MSDN) it appears that the 
> order in which the options appear affects what's used and /EHs and /EHa 
> would need some close looking at, since the testing framework needs at 
> least on of them.

I already analyzed the issues and did it for BBv2.  See
tools/build/v2/tools/msvc.jam

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Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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