Re: [Boost-testing] sanity check: -fno-exceptions and regex regressiontests

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] sanity check: -fno-exceptions and regex regressiontests
From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-08 04:06:31

> Problem:  During regex regression tests, the 'regex_regress_noeh'
> target is selected and regress/main.cpp gets compiled.  Jamfile.v2
> looks like it is turning off exception handling for the target
> and '-fno-exceptions' appears in the compilation.  Regression
> framework, namely 'test/impl/execution_monitor.ipp', gets included
> and clearly issues a throw at line 250.  Compiler reasonably gets
> mad at this and errors out failing the regression suite.  (Test
> bjam being run with '-a -q' options.)
>
> Q:  What am I missing that I'm failing in the test?  Haven't tried
> enabling exceptions for the tests though that's an obvious
> workaround as is excluding specific tests.

Well obviously this did pass at on stage, but changes to Boost.Test and 
others to the latest GCC compilers means it doesn't work anymore :-(

The good news is I fixed this in Git develop a few weeks ago - we need to 
get the online regression tests up and running again though before I'll 
merge to master and create a new regex release.

HTH, John.