Re: [Boost-testing] Useless failures reports/broken testers

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Useless failures reports/broken testers
From: Gennadiy Rozental (rogeeff_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-12-26 11:57:56

David Deakins <ddeakins <at> veeco.com> writes:

> 
> Gennadiy Rozental wrote:
> > I've checked in some iffy code into Boost.Test and impatiently waiting 
> > for regression results to appear here:
> 
> > 
> > * VeecoFTC (msvc-8.0~wm5~stlport5.1)
> > 
> > Reports failure in library build, but link to the library build output 
> > shows success
> > 
> 
> I'm not sure if there was a hiccup in the report status previously, but 
> currently the VeecoFTC Windows Mobile results are correctly showing that 
> Boost.Test fails to build because putenv (used in putenv_impl in 
> boost/test/utils/runtime/config.hpp) does not exist on this platform. 

> that I believe should resolve the WinCE problems.  Let me know if you 
> see any issues with them.
 If I understand your changes correctly you simply ifdef-ed out references to
putenv. Am I to understand that there is no way to programmatically update an
environment?

Gennadiy