From: John Maddock (john_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-02-16 05:59:24
> sorry for bothering you again, but why there's both
> libs/config/test/Jamfile, and some config-related enties in
> status/Jamfile (as of CVS HEAD today).
>
> That's yet another thing that can potentially get out of sync. Or
> there's some good reason for duplication, like you not wanting to run
> those auto-generated tests as part of main regression suite?
There's too many of them, and they're mainly useful for porting a new
compiler to Boost - the shortened tests in status/ are sufficient for normal
regression testing. Also some of the individual config tests require a
number one human eyeball to decide whether a failure is "real" or "not worth
worying about": the latter can occur when there's more than one non-standard
feature that could be enabled to achieve the same effect.
John.