[C++-sig] Re: Explicit failure markup

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Thu Sep 23 14:11:48 CEST 2004


Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer at earthlink.net> writes:

> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 19:45, David Abrahams wrote:
>> Jonathan Brandmeyer <jbrandmeyer at earthlink.net> writes:
>> 
>> > How are the expected failures communicated to the regression testing
>> > system?  I need to mark the slice test as failing on gcc-2.95.3-linux
>> > for the same reason that the other tests fail on this platform
>> > (exception translation).
>> 
>> See $BOOST_ROOT/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
>
> I had seen this file, but the only reference that I can see for the
> python lib is (on CVS HEAD):
>
>     <!-- python -->
>     <library name="python">
>         <mark-unusable>
>             <toolset name="borland"/>
>             <toolset name="borland-5.5.1"/>
>             <toolset name="borland-5.6.4"/>
>             <note refid="2"/>
>             <note refid="17"/>
>         </mark-unusable>
>     </library>
>
> Where is the code that causes (for example) the args test to show up as
> an expected failure on gcc-2.95.3-linux?

I don't know.


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