Minor changes and integration with test policy and compiler status pages

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Boost's internal regression test suite produces the
<a href="../status/compiler_status.html">compiler status tables</a>.
<p>Although not ordinarily run by Boost library users, it is documented here for
the benefit of Boost developers, and for Boost users porting to a new platform.</p>
<h2>Requirements</h2>
The test suite has been design according to the following requirements.
The test suite has been designed to meet to the following requirements.
<ul>
<li>Pure ISO C++, no tools required except a C++ compiler.
<li>Support for tests which expect an error
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You also need to configure the compilers available on your platform in
"compiler.cfg" as described above.
<p>
<p>You may need to add an entry for the compiler to <a href="../boost/config.hpp">boost/config.hpp</a>,
but only if entries for the compiler is not already present, and the compiler
doesn't fully conform to the ISO C++ Standard.</p>
<h2>History</h2>
<p>The regression.cpp test program was contributed
by Jens Maurer, generalizing and improving an earlier program by Beman Dawes.</p>
<hr>
2001-01-30<br>
<a href="../people/jens_maurer.htm">Jens Maurer</a>