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From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-03-28 07:53:40


on Wed Mar 28 2007, Martin Wille <mw8329-AT-yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> David Abrahams wrote
>> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
>> that has been posted to gmane.comp.lib.boost.testing as well.
>
> CC-ing me for messages that get sent to boost-testing doesn't help.
> Those messages get put into the INBOX together with spam. We're lucky I
> spotted your messages between the junk.

You mean, you don't read them where they appear on boost-testing anyway?

> It's the again wrong Python binary that got used to run the test; this
> is the log snippet for gcc-3.4.5/extract_test:
>
>
> /bin/sh: line 6: 5777 Segmentation fault /usr/bin/python2.3
> "../libs/python/test/list.py"
> >"/boost/head-regression/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/python/test/list.test/gcc-3.4.5_linux/debug/list.output"
> 2>&1

:(

> The system's Python got chosen instead of the installation configured in
> test-config.jam:
>
> using gcc : 3.4.5_linux : /usr/local/gcc-3.4.5/bin/g++wrap
> --limit-memory=600 --limit-cpu=1800 : <root>/usr/local/gcc-3.4.5
> <debug-symbols>off ;
> using python : 2.4 : /usr/local/python/2.4/gcc-3.4.4 : : : <toolset>gcc
> <toolset-gcc:version>3.4.5_linux ;

Can you please post your *entire* xxx-config.jam so I don't have to
piece it together from the Trac ticket and your amendments on this
list and worry that I got it wrong?

>
> regression.py invokes bjam like:
>
> bjam toolset1 toolset2

Yes, I know. Could you please post the actual bjam command-line
issued by your invocation of the regression script?

Failing that, could you post the command used to invoke regression.py
(I really would prefer the bjam command-line if possible)?

> Ideally, you could grant
>> me temporary access to the actual systems running the tests so I could
>> try to reproduce the problems there.
>
> Sorry, not possible. Yes, it would be ideal. I'm still trying to get
> hardware that I could dedicate to testing Boost. (This would not only
> allow for shared access, it also would solve any bandwidth problems)

I have hardware I can use. I could probably replicate your set-up, or
at least, enough of it to see the problems you're experiencing

> Failing that, I have an account
>> with nearly every major IM system and we could set up a chat session
>> to handle this.
>
> I'm on IRC in EFnet/#boost and in freenode/#boost (there's a relay
> between those two, anyway). Unfortunately, I can't promise to be there
> at any specific time.

Care to tell me what your ID is so we don't have to bother the group?

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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