----- Original Message ----- From: "John Maddock" <john@johnmaddock.co.uk> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:10 AM Subject: Re: [boost] Automating the header compilation check. was :[thread]1.36 thread.hpp compilation problem
vicente.botet wrote:
in my developement I use to include some tests that check that a header file compiles. Other boost developers do the same. How this is done now?
We write a .cpp file including the header file
// check_header1_compiles.cpp #include <boost/header1.hpp>
and add it to the list of compile test
test-suite LIB_inclusion : [ compile check_header1_compiles.cpp : : ] [ compile check_header2_compiles.cpp : : ] ... [ compile check_headerN_compiles.cpp : : ]
Even if this is simple, the creation of the file is tedious. Do you know a simple way to do it?
No, I've done this by hand in the past, and it's *very* tedious.
BTW, it's not sufficient to simply include the header: if the header contains templates, then you also need to instantiate those templates to ensure everything they use is visible to them. Not sure how one would automate that :-(
Right, it is not enough, but it is already useful. When the developper wants to check the template instantiation with archetypes he/she will do it explicitly, so there is no problem. Vicente