On 11/3/2010 11:34 AM, Jim Bell wrote:
On 1:59 PM, David Abrahams wrote:
At Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:16:37 -0500, Jim Bell wrote:
On 1:59 PM, Dave Abrahams wrote:
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 9:30 PM, Jim Bell<Jim@jc-bell.com> wrote:
Where the most instruction is needed is in building and running the regression tests in isolation. My method might be a bit unorthodox: hack run.py, then regression.py, and operate things just like a regression test, but without uploading data. (More detail later.) That sounds much harder than simply running "bjam" in the library's test/ subdirectory.
Thanks! That does sound much easier. I didn't see that anywhere in the docs.
That's a cryin' shame. Everyone seems to think they need to generate HTML, etc. etc. in order to run the tests, when all you need is bjam.
Could we add a section to <http://www.boost.org/development/running_regression_tests.html>, describing running tests locally? (Or at least a link to the page describing this?) That's the only documentation I've found (though I could easily have missed something).
There's also some brief mention of testing in the library author's test policy documentation <http://www.boost.org/development/test.html>. But it doesn't really mention the usual "run bjam in your test dir" procedure. So we do really need to add something about that.
I've burned a few hours on this. (And, more importantly, perceived it to be a difficult thing to do in isolation.)
Will all command lines (i.e., compiler/linker flags) be identical to the real regression tests?
They are semantically the same. I.e. there's no difference from running bjam in the individual lib test dirs vs. running it in the boost-root/status dir, which runs all of the test and which is what the testing system does. The latter just runs the individual ones in sequence. Of course there will be platform and setup differences depending on what the individual testers have done to create their system and toolsets. -- -- Grafik - Don't Assume Anything -- Redshift Software, Inc. - http://redshift-software.com -- rrivera/acm.org (msn) - grafik/redshift-software.com -- 102708583/icq - grafikrobot/aim,yahoo,skype,efnet,gmail