Re: [Boost-testing] Huang-WinXP-x64 - python - exec

From: Sean Huang (huangsean_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-07-13 19:40:17

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]>
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:00 PM
Subject: Huang-WinXP-x64 - python - exec

>
> http://engineering.meta-comm.com/boost-regression/CVS-RC_1_34_0/developer/output/Huang-WinXP-x64-boost-bin-v2-libs-python-test-exec-test-msvc-8-0-debug-threading-multi_release.html
>
> seems to indicate that it's failing to find the PythonXX.dll (where XX
> is your python version) in g:\Tools\python\libs.  It's either a tester
> configuration error, or an error in the BBv2 python toolset file.
> This should be easy for the tester to diagnose, but there's not much I
> can do without more information.  Can you look into it, Sean?
>
Dave,

I took a closer look at the problem and it is because the python version 
installed on the test machine is for win64-x64 (AMD64). That explains why 
all win32 versions failed but win64 versions worked. I tried to install 
win32-python side-by-side but it would not allow me (if I uninstall the 
64-bit version and install the 32-bit version then I guess the 64-bit 
versions will fail). Looks like we cannot test both 32-bit and 64-bit of 
python library on the same machine. I can change the toolset name to 
something other than msvc-8.0 so it can be marked as expected failures. But 
the more important issue is that the current toolset naming convention 
probably should include platform also.

Sean