Boost.Test, since boost 1.48 is using the deprecated Boost.Timer class

[ja11sop@…]

Boost 1.48 introduced a new Boost.Timer library, deprecating the old one. Boost.Test still depends on the old class. This causes compilation problems. See thread ​Timer & Boost.Test incompatibility from the gmane.lib.boost.devel list. From the thread:

When boost/test/included/unit_test.hpp is included in a unit test suite, you get compilation errors where boost::timer is declared as a class where previously it's defined as a namespace:

boost/timer.hpp(45): error C2869:
'boost::timer' : has already been defined to be a namespace

boost/test/impl/framework.ipp(153): error C2882:
'timer' : illegal use of namespace identifier in expression

boost/test/impl/framework.ipp(153): fatal error C1903:
unable to recover from previous error(s); stopping compilation

I've attached a first attempt at a patch based on one I use in production from boost 1.49.

Of note:

• Use of the new timer classes can be disabled by defining the macro BOOST_TEST_USE_DEPRECATED_TIMER
• Two new files are added to the boost/test/utils directory: timer.hpp and progress.hpp
  • progress.hpp is there to support progress output as was available in the deprecated boost timer but which is no longer part of the new timer classes as I recall
• I tried to keep the formatting essentially the same as other files in boost test with one exception - I refrained from adding $ tags as these are just noise.
• I tried to maintain backwards compatibility for report output, notably XML output.
• The new Boost.Timer is a compiled library and requires Boost.System. If you can't stomach that then the macro choosing the old version of Boost.Timer will help.

[Jamie Allsop <ja11sop@…>]

boost_test_new_timer.diff

[Jamie Allsop <ja11sop@…>]

These patches, attached to:

#7397

Boost.Test, since boost 1.48 is using the deprecated Boost.Timer class

#7410

Test Units (Cases and Suites) in Boost.Test do not capture __FILE__ and __LINE__ at declaration point making it impossible to provide source file linking using external test management tools

#7417

Detailed test status is not available in the Boost.Test log (status, assertions, passed) and so live test case status cannot be tracked

...taken together allow for sophisticated test tools to be built on top of the Boost.Test output.

[Sylvain Corlay <sylvain.corlay@…>]

Hi, do you know if there exists a workarround to use the new boost timers (boost::timer::cpu_timer) together with boost::test ? I tried, in a new header my_timer.h to do the following thing:

namespace my
{
#include <boost/timer/timer.hpp>
}

and then use my::boost::timer::cpu_timer instead of boost::timer::cpu_timer. Unfortunately, this seems to create other compilation problems:

In file included from /usr/include/boost/ratio/ratio.hpp:37:0,
                 from /usr/include/boost/chrono/duration.hpp:41,
                 from /usr/include/boost/chrono/chrono.hpp:11,
                 from /usr/include/boost/timer/timer.hpp:14,
/usr/include/boost/ratio/detail/mpl/abs.hpp:42:16: error: expected type-specifier before ‘na’

and a whole series of other errors in boost/raio/detail/mpl. I am using boost 1.48 and gcc 4.4 on a ubuntu 64-bit.

[anonymous]

This still seems to be an issue in 1.54. Any updates?

[Raffi Enficiaud]

Merged into develop at 043a11ab711246eb69ea2b3209efcde401fc4ca0

See pull request ​https://github.com/boostorg/test/pull/15

[Raffi Enficiaud]

Mistake: this work has been postponed because it broke the header only version of boost.test (indirect inclusion of boost.system)

[Raffi Enficiaud]

In branch topic/GH-202-boost-timer-deprecation for boost 1.70

[Raffi Enficiaud]

In master, for 1.70 rev 412e3d5855cc7bee690cfc8d99ba7c3c0b043124