Re: [Boost-testing] [graph] Testing modifies sources?

From: Vladimir Prus (ghost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-26 15:15:48

Rene Rivera wrote:

> I started doing RC_1_34_0 tests earlier this week, using gcc-4.2.0, and
> noticed the following in the logs during the checkout:
> 
> cvs update: Updating libs/graph/src
> M libs/graph/src/graphviz_digraph_lex.cpp
> M libs/graph/src/graphviz_graph_lex.cpp
> cvs update: Updating libs/graph/src/python
> 
> Somehow the process of testing, or building, changes those files. This
> doesn't seem like a good thing to me, as it prevents those files from
> getting updated from CVS. Or worse if someone changes them in CVS, it
> may cause merge conflicts in the update, which would produce invalid
> files, breaking whatever tests depend on those.

I think those files are generated by flex, and probably Boost.Build
thinks those files in CVS are out-of-date with respect to flex source.
Maybe checking in the modified version will be sufficient.

- Volodya