1<html> 2 3<head> 4<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us"> 5<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0"> 6<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document"> 7<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> 8<title>Inspect Tool</title> 9</head> 10 11<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> 12 13<h1> 14<img src="../../boost.png" alt="boost.png (6897 bytes)" align="center" width="277" height="86">Inspect 15Tool</h1> 16<p>It is not uncommon for various common errors or 17<a href="http://www.boost.org/more/lib_guide.htm">guideline violations</a> to creep into the 18Boost libraries. The <i>inspect</i> program detects and reports several common 19problems. It can be used to scan a proposed Boost submission to identify various 20failures.</p> 21<p>The <i>inspect</i> program is written in C++ to limit tool chain 22dependencies, and should be portable to any system.</p> 23<p>The program is run in the directory to be scanned for errors. Sub-directories 24are also included in the scan.</p> 25<p>If the first program argument is <code>-help</code>, a usage message is 26displayed, showing all available program options.</p> 27<p>The program sources include:</p> 28<ul> 29 <li><a href="inspector.hpp">inspect.hpp</a> and <a href="inspect.cpp"> 30 inspect.cpp</a></li> 31 <li><a href="link_check.hpp">link_check.hpp</a> and <a href="link_check.cpp"> 32 link_check.cpp</a></li> 33 <li><a href="path_name_check.hpp">path_name_check.hpp</a> and 34 <a href="path_name_check.cpp">path_name_check.cpp</a></li> 35 <li><a href="tab_check.hpp">tab_check.hpp</a> and <a href="tab_check.cpp"> 36 tab_check.cpp</a></li> 37</ul> 38<p>A <a href="build/Jamfile.v2">Jamfile</a> is provided to build the program 39using Boost.Build.</p> 40<p>A Microsoft Visual Studio solution file is provided to aid maintenance. See 41<a href="build/msvc/readme.txt">readme.txt</a> 42before using it.</p> 43<hr> 44<p>Revised 45<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" S-Type="EDITED" S-Format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->29 June, 2008<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="19976" --></p> 46 47<p>� Copyright Beman Dawes, 2003</p> 48<p> Distributed under the Boost Software 49License, Version 1.0. (See accompanying file <a href="../../LICENSE_1_0.txt"> 50LICENSE_1_0.txt</a> or copy at <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt"> 51www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt</a>)</p> 52 53</body> 54 55</html> 56
