Changeset 155d1f80 for general/genlib/boost.xml

Timestamp:

02/23/2015 09:12:23 PM (9 years ago)

Author:

Pierre Labastie <pieere@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.1, 11.0, 11.1, 11.2, 11.3, 12.0, 12.1, 7.10, 7.7, 7.8, 7.9, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, basic, bdubbs/svn, elogind, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/inkscape-core-mods, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, nosym, perl-modules, plabs/newcss, plabs/python-mods, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, upgradedb, xry111/intltool, xry111/llvm18, xry111/soup3, xry111/test-20220226, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

718593a

Parents:

1c80c2c

Message:

Add testsuite instructions to Boost+Tag

git-svn-id: svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/trunk/BOOK@15559 af4574ff-66df-0310-9fd7-8a98e5e911e0

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• general/genlib/boost.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

general/genlib/boost.xml

@@ -37 +37 @@
     </para>
 
-    &lfs76_checked;
+    &lfs77_checked;
 
     <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
@@ -102 +102 @@
 
     <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>
 
@@ -130 +133 @@
 
     <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>