Opened 10 years ago

Closed 7 years ago

#7894 closed Bugs (fixed)

Boost.Test documentation contains no linking instructions

Reported by: yurii.zolotko@… Owned by: Raffi Enficiaud
Milestone: Boost 1.59.0 Component: test
Version: Boost 1.52.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: Cc:

Description

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/test/doc/html/tutorials/new-year-resolution.html has the following instructions for running example: "Now I can compile it and link with the unit test framework." But how to link?! No mention in this page or any before. If the user reads documentation sequentially this is confusing.

Even more if you read documentation till end you won't find how UTF static/shared library is called. Someone would it expect it to be described at
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/test/doc/html/utf/user-guide/usage-variants/static-lib-variant.html or
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_52_0/libs/test/doc/html/utf/user-guide/usage-variants/dynamic-lib-variant.html
but again it is not there.
The only way to find this out is to do a #grep <unresolved_symbols_you_got> /usr/local/lib/libboost_*

Change History (4)

comment:1 by viboes, 10 years ago

Component: Documentationtest
Owner: changed from Matias Capeletto to Gennadiy Rozental

comment:2 by Raffi Enficiaud, 8 years ago

Owner: changed from Gennadiy Rozental to Raffi Enficiaud

comment:3 by Raffi Enficiaud, 8 years ago

I believe this is now well covered in the doc (currently develop: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/develop/libs/test/doc/html/index.html)

comment:4 by Raffi Enficiaud, 7 years ago

Milestone: To Be DeterminedBoost 1.59.0
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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