Re: [Boost-testing] [iostreams] All Testers: please consider enabling large file support

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-01-18 10:14:25

Jonathan Turkanis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> One area of the iostreams library that has always been difficult to test 
> is seeking within large files (> 2GB), since it seemed impolite for a 
> test to create a huge file on someone's system without asking, and the 
> test would likely fail regularly for lack of disk space.
> 
> However, there have been enough bugs related to large files that I would 
> like to encourage everyone who can afford a huge file (8GB) to be 
> created and removed during testing to define the bjam variable 
> LARGE_FILE_TEMP to the full path where such a file can be created.

What's the exact bjam command line syntax to do this? -sLARGE_FILE_TEMP 
or something similar?

Thanks,

--Beman