Re: [Boost-testing] [Bronek office] out of disk again?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-03-29 23:46:03

David Abrahams wrote:

> Bronek Kozicki <brok_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>> Eric Niebler wrote:
>>>> Resending....
>>>>
>>> 
>>> Third time's the charm? For two weeks, the Bronek office tests have been
>>> running out of disk space and causing spurious failures for xpressive.
>>> What's going on here?
>>
>>
>> sometimes free disk space on my office computer runs as low as only 16GB
>> . One would think that 16GB should be enough, but apparently not so.
> 
> Does BBv2 implement the BBv1 feature that test executables are
> (optionally) removed when they run successfully?  

No. In V1 I had some bad experience with that feature, so I did not ported
it over.

> Probably v2 has 
> enough information that we should be able to do the same for object
> files.

I doubt this will be a good idea. Then, in case of any problem (like bad
LD_LIBRARY_PATH that we had on some Unix platforms) you'll have to
recompile entire Boost testsuite.

- Volodya