Author: pierre
Date: Mon Feb 23 13:12:23 2015
New Revision: 15559
Log:
Add testsuite instructions to Boost+Tag
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/general.ent
trunk/BOOK/general/genlib/boost.xml
trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Feb 23 11:18:06 2015 (r15558)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general.ent Mon Feb 23 13:12:23 2015 (r15559)
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->
-<!ENTITY day "22"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
+<!ENTITY day "23"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month "02"> <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year "2015">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version "&year;-&month;-&day;">
-<!ENTITY releasedate "February 22nd, &year;">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "February 23rd, &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn"> <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version "development"> <!-- x.y|development] -->
Modified: trunk/BOOK/general/genlib/boost.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/general/genlib/boost.xml Mon Feb 23 11:18:06 2015 (r15558)
+++ trunk/BOOK/general/genlib/boost.xml Mon Feb 23 13:12:23 2015 (r15559)
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
expressions and unit testing.
</para>
- &lfs76_checked;
+ &lfs77_checked;
<bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
<itemizedlist spacing="compact">
@@ -101,7 +101,10 @@
./b2 stage threading=multi link=shared</userinput></screen>
<para>
- This package does not come with a test suite.
+ To test the result, issue <command>pushd status; ../b2; popd</command>.
+ A few tests may fail. They take a long time (around 70 SBU) and use up
+ to 10 GB of memory. You can use the <parameter>-jN</parameter> switch
+ to speed them up.
</para>
<para>
@@ -129,11 +132,18 @@
</para>
<para>
- <parameter>link=shared</parameter>: This parameter ensures that only
shared
- libraries are created, except for libboost_exception and
libboost_test_exec_monitor
- which are created as static. Most people will not need the static
libraries, indeed
- most programs using <application>Boost</application> only use the
headers, but omit
- this parameter if you do need them.
+ <parameter>link=shared</parameter>: This parameter ensures that only
+ shared libraries are created, except for libboost_exception and
+ libboost_test_exec_monitor which are created as static. Most people
+ will not need the static libraries. Indeed most programs using
+ <application>Boost</application> only use the headers. 0mit
+ this parameter if you do need static libraries.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ <option>-jN</option>: This switch may be added to the
+ <command>b2</command> command lines, to run up to N processes in
+ parallel.
</para>
</sect2>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Feb 23 11:18:06
2015 (r15558)
+++ trunk/BOOK/introduction/welcome/changelog.xml Mon Feb 23 13:12:23
2015 (r15559)
@@ -45,9 +45,13 @@
-->
<listitem>
- <para>February 22nd, 2015</para>
+ <para>February 23rd, 2015</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
+ <para>[pierre] - add instructions to run the test-suite of
+ the Boost library.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
<para>[ken] - add Data-Dump (perl module) which had been omitted from
the biber dependencies.</para>
</listitem>
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