On Mar 26, 2012, at 11:13 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
Le 26/03/12 17:39, Belcourt, K. Noel a écrit :
On Mar 26, 2012, at 6:31 AM, lcaminiti wrote:
Belcourt, K. Noel wrote
Sun is, for all intent and purposes, a dead platform for us. While I realize others may be using newer flavors of it, we've basically stopped and use it only for the numerics which were/are quite good. Our system is not being maintained so I'd guess your best bet is to mark your library as unsupported on this platform.
Hi Lorenzo,
OK. Shall Sun be removed by the trunk regression tests then?
No, we'll leave the Sandia-Sun tester running as long as we can. Go to the Legend at the bottom of the trunk results page, one of the keys is this:
n/a The library author marked it as unusable on particular platform/toolset.
I suggest you mark your library as n/a for the Sandia-Sun tester, as others have done for their libraries, e.g. proto, property_tree, statechart, xpressive, etc...
it is difficult to classify a library as N/A when we don't know what is not working on. I'm wondering if this is not catching a bug on the regression tools.
I believe this is the same problem it's been for years, libraries like Thread that depend on Boost.Test won't work right unless Test works right. A quick glance at the Boost.Test results show most of it doesn't work on Sun, that's why Thread and presumably many other libraries don't work on Sun.
Boost.Thread is on the same case, and I will be interested in changing whatever is needed to make it usable on Sun/Solaris.
I only see a couple of option, push on Gennadiy to bring up Test on Sun, or decouple Thread from Test and control your own fate.
Please, could you see why the regression tests are not showing why the test fails
Here's an example. ...skipped <p/scratch2/kbelco/boost/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/thread/ test/condition_variable__default_p.test/sun-5.10/debug/address- model-64/stdlib-sun-stlport/threading- multi>condition_variable__default_p for lack of <p/scratch2/kbelco/ boost/results/boost/bin.v2/libs/test/build/sun-5.10/debug/address- model-64/link-static/stdlib-sun-stlport/threading- multi>libboost_unit_test_framework.a... -- Noel