Re: [Boost-testing] broken reporting of failure expectations

From: Douglas Gregor (doug.gregor_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-07-09 17:41:32

On Jul 9, 2005, at 5:22 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:

>
> "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:uhdfb2old.fsf_at_boost-consulting.com...
>
>> Also, an aside, it appears that OSL's gcc-3_3-darwin and BGDX's
>> gcc-3_3-apple are identical.  weren't we trying to avoid duplicate
>> testing?

For Dave: I'd like to avoid duplicate testing when it results in slower 
throughput, e.g., Martin Wille's tests were taking a *really* long time 
to cycle.

> I'd like to run BGDX several times a day, so that developers don't 
> have to
> wait so long for results to cycle. The only reason I haven't been 
> doing that
> is that I couldn't get cron to start. I've been meaning to try again, 
> but
> got distracted.

You should rename gcc-3_3-apple to gcc-3_3-darwin, because some 
Jamfiles (e.g., Python) look for the "darwin" part of the name.

        Doug