Re: [Boost-testing] regression.py/Boost.Build v2 issues

From: Aleksey Gurtovoy (agurtovoy_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-27 04:00:20

Reece, 

> I have found another issue with pregression.py. After doing a V2
> run, status contains directories and filenames that have a character
> that is displayed as a square (unrepresentable). I.e., it is testing
> for Unicode characters.  However, when regression.py is removing a
> previous boost run, I get the following error:

[...]

> # Deleting "C:\devel\regression\boost" directory...
> # get_tarball failed with message "[Errno 22] Invalid argument: 
> 'C:\\devel\\regr
> ession\\boost\\status\\?'"
>
> Here, the Unicode character has been replaced by a '?' character and
> is failing when calling rmtree. I have tracked it down to the
> shutil.rmtree( path ) call trying to remove the directory containing
> a Unicode character.

This has been fixed a couple of weeks ago in the HEAD.

-- 
Aleksey Gurtovoy
MetaCommunications Engineering