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). 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?