Re: [Boost-testing] regression.py and --incremental

From: Martin Wille (mw8329_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-02-03 12:38:50

David Abrahams schrieb:
> David Abrahams <dave_at_[hidden]> writes:
> 
>> When I pass --incremental I always delete the old bjam.log first because
>> otherwise regression.py will just append to the existing one.  Am I
>> doing the right thing?
> 
> I'm guessing not, since I am seeing lots of holes in my regression
> reports.  I turned off the deletion and cleared out all my binaries so
> the next run should be complete. A nightly cron job also does that for
> me.  Please let me know if I'm on the right track.

AFAICS, deleting bjam.log is not the reason for the holes. The reason 
usually is some problem with parsing bjam.log in order to produce the 
XML files.

I delete my log files before each (incremental) run here and I don't see 
a lot of holes in my part of the table.

Regards,
m

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