Re: [Boost-testing] Lots of spurious Borland failures?

From: Thomas Witt (witt_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-11-20 17:46:23

AlisdairM wrote:
> John Maddock wrote:
> 
>> OK, I hadn't realised it was a release build, I can reproduce now,
>> looks like a known linker bug:
>> http://qc.borland.com/wc/qcmain.aspx?d=32020 that occurs when the
>> project exceeds a certain size.  I guess I'll just have to mark them
>> up as expected :-(
> 
> I'm not sure that is the right answer - at least not for Boost 1.34.
> 
> I am concerned that JustSoftwareSolutions are not so much reporting
> regressions, as running tests in new configurations - release builds.
> 
> This is an incredibly valuable contribution, but nailing these problems
> is new work, not fixing regressions.  Given that we really want to ship
> 1.34 sooner rather than later, I would suggest this test runner focus
> back on the mainline, and we pay attention to release-configuration
> issues for 1.35.

FWIW I do agree with Alisdair.

Thomas

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