Re: [Boost-testing] [EXTERNAL] Windows build failures

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] [EXTERNAL] Windows build failures
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-26 21:14:40

Ah.. Noel said he did send a pull request.

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:

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> On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Belcourt, Kenneth <kbelco_at_[hidden]>wrote:
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>>  On Jan 26, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Beman Dawes wrote:
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>>   On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 10:12 AM, Tom Kent <lists_at_[hidden]> wrote:
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>>> I'm getting several builds failing on windows with the dreaded:
>>> ...
>>>   File "C:\local\teeks99-02\b\tools_regression_src\regression.py",
>>> line 434, in command_test_boost_build
>>>     "boost/bin.v2/libs/any/test/any_test.test"));
>>> WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified:
>>> 'C:\\local\\teeks99-02\\b\\results\\boost/bin.v2/libs
>>> /any/test/any_test.test/*.*'
>>>
>>> (We really need to make more descriptive and accurate error handling)
>>>
>>> When I look in results/bjam.log, I'm seeing this at the end:
>>> error: Unable to find file or target named
>>> error:     '../libs/sync/test/'
>>> error: referred to from project at
>>> error:     '.'
>>>
>>> Any ideas on that?
>>>
>>
>>  At least on my boost working directory, the sync submodule was never
>> initialized. A git submodule --init was needed.
>>
>>  Perhaps that happens when a submodule is present in develop, but not
>> master?
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>>  If so, regression.py needs to code with this case. Rene?
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>>  I could take a look at this if it would help.  BTW, I've got a pull
>> request against boost that would help me out if I could get it committed.
>>  It fixes our ability to run regression tests from behind a firewall as
>> well as a trivial fix to bootstrap.sh.
>>
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> Could you send a pull request instead? In retrospect test/regression
> should have been a submodule instead of a part of the boost-super project,
> and we are really trying to limit the number of people who have write
> permission for the super-project. Eventually we will separate
> tools/regression, but that is lower on the priority list that a lot of
> other fires being fought.
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Beman
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