Re: [Boost-testing] Problems with debug info on Intel 9

From: Markus Schöpflin (markus.schoepflin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-08-24 04:28:52

Stefan Slapeta wrote:

> on cvs-head (also in boost 1.33) we have problems with some tests on 
> Intel 9.0 because the size of the generated debug info exceeds the limit 
> of 64k:
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/c6wh7
> http://tinyurl.com/bpd2n

Heh, and here I was thinking that GGC/Tru64 was the only platform having 
such a limitation.

> Although these are currently marked as expected, I don't think this is 
> the correct "result" for these tests because the problems are only 
> related to this very special source code constellation of the affected 
> test cases which doesn't mean that the functionality is not available in 
> general.
> 
> My question to bjam experts: is there any elegant way how we could 
> suppress debug info output for some special test cases (for special 
> compiler configurations)? The outcome should be omitting the /Z7 option 
> on the command line.

Sure, have a look at libs/multi_index/test/Jamfile, the local rule 
special-requirements should help you.

Markus