Stan Math Unit Tests

[Michael Betancourt]

So the math library requires boost, but boost is not included
— shouldn’t boost and eigen and gtest be libraries included
in math and then stan and the interfaces get access to them
via their inclusion of the math library?

Anyways, what’s the procedure for running unit tests on the
math library? I gots math to update!

[Daniel Lee]

Sorry about that. It was in the README, but was pulled out. It's now on a wiki page in Stan Math.

https://github.com/stan-dev/math/wiki

The simplest way is to set a STANAPI_HOME variable in the makefile like:

STANAPI_HOME = ~/stan/

Daniel

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[Bob Carpenter]

I also have a preference for including Boost. We don't
need to distribute it with R, which uses its own Boost,
but I think we should at least make it easy for ourselves.

Or is there a good reason not to I'm not seeing?

- Bob

[Ben Goodrich]

On Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at 2:11:22 PM UTC-4, Bob Carpenter wrote:

I also have a preference for including Boost.  We don't
need to distribute it with R, which uses its own Boost,
but I think we should at least make it easy for ourselves.

Or is there a good reason not to I'm not seeing?

I think people would expect us to make Boost a git subrepo at this point. That way, they can have it under lib/ if they want or use their system's Boost.

Ben

[Bob Carpenter]

I don't want them to use their system's Boost unless it matches
the one true Boost version that we support. Boost's too
unstable release to release to give us much latitude. For instance,
1.56 broke backward compatibility for the parser with 1.55, and I'm
not sure there's a workaround other than 100+ #ifdefs.

- Bob