Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [boost] [Fit] upcoming formal review for Boost.Fit
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-02-29 02:12:13

Le 29/02/2016 05:37, Paul Fultz II a écrit :
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> On Sunday, February 28, 2016 at 5:28:39 PM UTC-6, Edward Diener wrote:
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>     On 2/28/2016 4:23 PM, paul Fultz wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > On Sunday, February 28, 2016 12:23 PM, Edward Diener
>     <eldi..._at_[hidden] <javascript:>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 2/27/2016 11:16 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
>     >>> Dear Boost community,
>     >>>
>     >>> The formal review of Paul Fultz II's Fit library starts on
>     Wednesday, 2nd March and ends on 13th March.
>     >>
>     >> How do I generate the docs or run the tests for my local copy
>     of Fit ?
>     >
>     >>
>     >
>     > You can build and run the tests by building the check target.
>     For those
>     > unfamiliar with cmake, first configure the build directory with
>     cmake:
>     >
>     > mkdir build
>     > cd build
>     > cmake ..
>     > cd ..
>     >
>     > Next build the check target using the native build system(such
>     as make or
>     > msbuild). CMake can call the native build system to build the
>     target 'check',
>     > like so:
>     >
>     > cmake --build build --config Release --target check
>     >
>     > Also, the library can be installed by invoking the 'install'
>     target.
>
>     Why is the CMakeLists.txt not in the 'test' subdirectory, since it
>     appears from your explanation that the file is used for the tests ?
>
>
> Its used to install the library as well.
>
>
>     >
>     > The documentation needs to be built using mkdocs. You can
>     install mkdocs and
>     > the boost theme with pip like this:
>     >
>     > pip install mkdocs mkdocs-boost
>     >
>     > Then to build the documentation, first `setup.py` must be run to
>     extract the
>     > documentation and examples from the source code, then `mkdocs`
>     can be invoked,
>     > like this:
>     >
>     > python setup.py
>     > mkdocs build -t boost
>     >
>     > And the documentation will be in the 'doc/html' directory.
>
>     Please add these explanations to Fit as you are not using Boost
>     build to
>     build the doc or run the tests.
>
>
> I will add them.
>
> Also, I tried to add an initial Jamfile to build and run the tests as 
> well. I
> just modified the Jamfile from other boost libraries. However, I haven't
> figured out how to run the tests yet using bjam to test my Jamfile. I get
> "error: Did not find Jamfile.jam or Jamroot.jam in any parent 
> directory". I am
> not sure how I am supposed to run the tests.
You can try to copy the ones in https://github.com/viboes/std-make

I will try to help you this evening,
Vicente