Re: [Boost-testing] documentation for running the boost regression test

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-12-12 17:31:40

Aleksey Gurtovoy <agurtovoy_at_[hidden]> writes:

>> If possible the people who manage these pages should :
>> 1) metion that user-config.jam is necessary to running regression.py
>> 2) the line  using gcc ....    is very important, and give a few examples.
>> 3) the line  using python ;  is very important and must be
>> specified.
>
> Hmm, I wonder if we can get rid of #3. Vladimir, David?

I would sure like that, if it were possible.  How late in the process
is too late to call 

  using python ;

?  

Invoking it from the rules that declare python extensions and from the
Jamfile that declares libboost_python would be easy, but ideally I
would only do it if those targets were actually being built.

In v1 that would have been easy, since there was a convenient
mechanism for inserting rules that would be invoked to process the
feature set of any target.  I don't know of a similar hook in v2.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
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