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authorWilliam S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk>2011-02-05 12:47:56 +0000
committerWilliam S Fulton <wsf@fultondesigns.co.uk>2011-02-05 12:47:56 +0000
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SF #3173367 Better information during configure about Boost prerequisite for running the test-suite. BOOST_CPPFLAGS can only be used though once common.mk is created at configure time.
git-svn-id: https://swig.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/swig/trunk@12434 626c5289-ae23-0410-ae9c-e8d60b6d4f22
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@@ -142,6 +142,8 @@ incorrectly configured. It may also fail due to compiler issues such
as broken C++ compiler. Even if 'make -k check' fails, there is a
pretty good chance SWIG still works correctly---you will just have to
mess around with one of the examples and some makefiles to get it to work.
+Some tests may also fail due to missing dependency packages, eg PCRE
+or Boost, but this will require careful analysis of the configure output.
The testing suite executed by 'make -k check' is designed to stress-test
many parts of the implementation including obscure corner cases. If some
@@ -149,8 +151,8 @@ of these tests fail or generate warning messages, there is no reason for
alarm---the test may be related to some new SWIG feature or a difficult bug
that we're trying to resolve. Chances are that SWIG will work just fine
for you. Note that if you have more than one CPU/core, then you can use
-parallel make can be used to speed up the check as it does take quite some
-time to run, for example:
+parallel make to speed up the check as it does take quite some time to run,
+for example:
% make -j2 -k check