Re: [Boost-testing] Trying to run the regression tests

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] Trying to run the regression tests
From: Marshall Clow (marshall_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-05-25 13:25:02

At 9:28 AM -0700 5/25/09, Steven Watanabe wrote:
>Marshall Clow wrote:
>>Intel-based Mac Mini. Mac OS X 10.5.7. XCode 3.2.1 (gcc 4.0.1) installed.
>>
>>I executed:
>>$ python run.py --runner="mclow-darwin-intel" --toolsets=darwin 
>>--bjam-toolset=darwin --pjl-toolset=darwin
>>
>>as suggested by John Pavel on this list back in 2007
>>  <http://archive.netbsd.se/?ml=boost-testing&a=2007-11&t=5688385>, 
>>end of page.
>>
>>But it fails (see attached output). It appears that the tools get 
>>confused trying to build
>>process_jam_log, and decide that "darwin" is a target, rather than a toolset.
>
>You need to have a user-config.jam with
>using darwin ;

Wouldn't that make it hard to test multiple different toolsets on the 
same machine?

>It should be fairly easy to fix the regression testing framework, by
>passing toolset=darwin instead of darwin.

I'm looking at the notes by the folx doing regression testing on darwin.
One of them (Sandia-leopard-x86) says:

Command Line
       regression.py invoked as follows (trailing carets are line 
continuation characters)
        python regression.py --runner="Sandia-leopard-x86" 
--bjam-toolset=darwin ^
          --pjl-toolset=darwin --toolsets="darwin-4.0.1 intel-10.1" 
--bjam-options="-j8"

Now I'm even more confused. What's the difference between 
"regression.py" and "run.py"?
I see that the page at 
<http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html>
talks about "run.py", except that it mentions "regression.py" once, 
in the "patching boost sources" section.

Is that page the correct place to get instructions?
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