On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 12:16 AM Stefan Seefeld via Boost <boost@lists.boost.org> wrote:
On https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/numeric-ublas.html, I'm looking at failures in the "Sandia" columns. Following one link takes me to
https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/output/Sandia-gcc-..., which demonstrates a couple of issues:
I don't see any gcc columns for Sandia in the current table and the link to the test output page doesn't work for me. Maybe you were looking at some stale data.
* What compiler version is this using ? The URL contains both "5.4.0" as well as "4.4.7".
The compiler version typically comes from the tester name at the header/footer of the table. If you click on it, you will see additional info regarding the tester, although specifically for Sandia there is not much useful there. You can see some more info about the compiler by viewing the output of the config_info test of Boost.Config: https://www.boost.org/development/tests/develop/developer/config.html
* The actual error reads "unrecognized command line option -std=c++11". Given that Boost.uBLAS itself doesn't specify this flag, I assume it's part of the test runner's configurations. However, it seems to be used with a compiler version that doesn't support it (though again, it isn't clear which compiler version we are actually talking about).
The flag is most likely added by the tester and if so, that is a tester configuration error.
What can I do about this ? Ignore the errors ? It would be good if the metainfo that is displayed with the test runners included a point of contact (mail address ?) to report such errors.
Normally, the contact info is included in the tester info page that I mentioned earlier. Unfortunately, this is not the case for Sandia. I think, those testers are run by Noel Belcourt (kbelco at sandia.gov). He sometimes appears on this list. Given that currently the faulty columns are not present, the problem might have been fixed already (as it was reported earlier on the list), and the columns were removed.