Re: [Boost-testing] [accumulators] spurious failures?

From: Eric Niebler (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-08 16:37:32

Richard Webb wrote:
> John Pavel <jrp <at> dial.pipex.com> writes:
>>
>> How do you run the test individually?
> 
> You can run the tests for a single library by running bjam from that libraries
> test directory. e.g.
> 
> cd boost\libs\accumulators\test
> bjam -a msvc-9.0
> 
> Something else i just noticed is that the jamfile for the accumulators tests
> contains:
>       # MSVC-8's iterator debugging causes some tests to run forever.
>       <toolset>msvc-8.0:<iterator_debugging>off
> Might this issue also exist on msvc-9.0 (and indeed, msvc-8.0_64)?

Ah-ha! Yes, iterator debugging makes some of the accumulator tests run 
virtually forever. I'll fix this in the jamfile. Thanks. We'll see if 
that makes the spurious failures go away.

-- 
Eric Niebler
Boost Consulting
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