Re: [Boost-testing] Regressions in your Boost libraries as of 2005-07-06

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-06 16:15:34

Doug Gregor wrote:
> 
> On Jul 6, 2005, at 12:23 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
> 
>> Douglas Gregor <dgregor_at_[hidden]> writes:
>>
[...]
>>> |python|
>>>   extract:  gcc-3.4.4-linux  gcc-4.0.0-linux
>>>   list:  gcc-3.4.4-linux  gcc-4.0.0-linux
>>>   pickle1:  gcc-3.4.4-linux  gcc-4.0.0-linux
>>>   pickle2:  gcc-3.4.4-linux
>>>   pickle3:  gcc-3.4.4-linux  gcc-4.0.0-linux
>>>   pickle4:  gcc-3.4.4-linux  gcc-4.0.0-linux
>>
>>
>> What happened here?  I haven't changed anything in Boost.Python, and
>> the error reports on the site above are inscrutable.  Are you setting
>> PYTHON_ROOT in these toolsets, by any chance?
> 
> 
> Those are the Martin Wille tests that are failing; the OSL tests are 
> all passing. Martin, to run the Python tests you'll probably need to 
> build different versions of Python for the different compilers. 
> Something in the newer GCCs causes very bad behavior when Python is 
> built with a different compiler than Boost.Python.

I recently re-added python. (The system's python version changed a long
time ago and I didn't realize this affects the tests).

I plan to install gcc-3.4.4 based and gcc-4.0.0 based Python versions
within 24 hours.

Regards,
m
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