[Boost-cmake] boost-cmake M.O.

2008-06-17 Thread troy d. straszheim
Repost of a snippet of Doug Gregor's original announcement of this list and call for volunteers: A small group of volunteers has been working on a new build system for Boost based on CMake, a cross-platform, open-source build system. We have reached the point where our core build system has

Re: [Boost-cmake] popups on windows

2008-06-17 Thread troy d. straszheim
Evan Wheeler wrote: Okay, so if you call this windows API function: SetErrorMode( SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX ); Evan sent a way to do this in python to me offline, it appears to work, checked in, problem solved for now. -t ___ Boost-cmake mailing list

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Beman Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> Beman Dawes wrote: >> >>> I'm still hung at the step that says " Enable BOOST_BUILD_SLAVE and >>> BOOST_BUILD_TESTING." >>> >>> There

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread Beman Dawes
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:43 AM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beman Dawes wrote: > >> I'm still hung at the step that says " Enable BOOST_BUILD_SLAVE and >> BOOST_BUILD_TESTING." >> >> There are no such entries to enable. >> > > > > Does this help? > > http://svn.boost.org/tra

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread KSpam
Beman, On Tuesday 17 June 2008 05:04:05 Beman Dawes wrote: > I'm still hung at the step that says " Enable BOOST_BUILD_SLAVE and > BOOST_BUILD_TESTING." > > There are no such entries to enable. You might have to show "advanced" configuration options. You should see a checkbox on the GUI for thi

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread troy d. straszheim
Justins's suggestion: It seems like it would be easier to have a testing configuration file that specifies the necessary configuration options. For example, we could have "BoostTestingSlave.cmake" was a good one, you can hide details and reduce the number of steps and avoid editing the cach

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread troy d. straszheim
KSpam wrote: I can see how these CMake specifics can be very confusing to someone that is not used to CMake. It seems like it would be easier to have a testing configuration file that specifies the necessary configuration options. For example, we could have "BoostTestingSlave.cmake" with the

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread Beman Dawes
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:38 PM, KSpam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 16 June 2008 12:58:23 Beman Dawes wrote: > > * The "Configuration testing" section is totally opaque to someone (me!) > > who has never used edit_cache. Any why is it called "edit_cache"? It > > appears to be configurati

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread troy d. straszheim
Beman Dawes wrote: I'm still hung at the step that says " Enable BOOST_BUILD_SLAVE and BOOST_BUILD_TESTING." There are no such entries to enable. > Does this help? http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/wiki/CMakeWindowsRegressionQuickstart it's BUILD_TESTING, not BOOST_BUILD_TESTING, my fault.

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread Beman Dawes
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 7:14 PM, troy d. straszheim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Beman Dawes wrote: > >> Troy, >> >> Here is some initial feedback" >> > > Hey Beman, > > All good feedback. I neglected to mention that the documents assume > that the reader is familiar with building/configuring via

Re: [Boost-cmake] Test feedback

2008-06-17 Thread KSpam
On Monday 16 June 2008 12:58:23 Beman Dawes wrote: > * The "Configuration testing" section is totally opaque to someone (me!) > who has never used edit_cache. Any why is it called "edit_cache"? It > appears to be configuration settings that are being edited. > > Specifically, say that running nmake

Re: [Boost-cmake] popups on windows

2008-06-17 Thread Evan Wheeler
Okay, so if you call this windows API function: SetErrorMode( SEM_NOGPFAULTERRORBOX ); It will suppress that error message. I don't know about calling it from Python. You should read up on this before using it. I wrote a quick test in C++ where I open a program with a pipe that does a divide b