Re: [Boost-testing] [boost] Geometry path length breaking windows regression runs

Subject: Re: [Boost-testing] [boost] Geometry path length breaking windows regression runs
From: Mateusz Loskot (mateusz_at_[hidden])
Date: 2018-11-23 09:24:01

On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 at 03:21, Adam Wulkiewicz via Boost-Testing
<boost-testing_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Tom Kent Via Boost wrote:
>
> There has been a change to the geometry library, sometime around Nov 14,
> that is causing the windows regression runners I manage to crash. The issue
> is that it is creating *very* long filesystem paths, even with the
> regression --abbreviate-paths option set.
>
> There are a bunch of files such as:
> D:\teeks99-08\run\results\boost\bin.v2\libs\geometry\test\self_contained_headers\self-contained-algorithms-detail-buffer-buffered_piece_collection~hpp.test\msvc-14.1\dbg\adrs-mdl-64\async-excpt-on\thrd-mlt\self-contained-algorithms-detail-buffer-buffered_piece_collection~hpp.obj.rsp
>
> That seem to be created alright, but when I try to cleanup the run
> afterwards, windows doesn't allow me to delete the files.
>
>
> This was an attempt to test the library WRT violation of Boost headers policy. In particular: "Make sure that a translation unit consisting of just the contents of the header file will compile successfully". We noticed that they're causing trouble and they are no longer run by default.
>
> This is the commit disabling the tests:
>
> https://github.com/boostorg/geometry/commit/b432f28d9469903d2a8019db5a4c9036e995b82e

Tom, this was my fault, sorry for inconvenience.
I unintentionally ignored the regression runners, remembering
only about the CI services (with CI env variable set).
As Adam explained, it's been fixed now.

Best regards
-- 
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net