On 29 August 2013 19:45, Glenn Fowler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> the AT&T Software Technology ast alpha 2013-08-29 source release
> has been posted to the download site
> http://www.research.att.com/sw/download/alpha/
> the package names and md5 checksums are
> INIT 132e0403af573fa1cb1e202267fedeb8
> ast-open 334615fb3a652575106194c281d27b5c
> ast-ksh ebcc56d9ab673aaafbb163d6eee1a93c
> the md5 sums should match the ones listed on the download page
>
> this is still a work in progress, but we are getting closer to a beta
> we are interested in verification that new features work
> and at this point not interested in quibbles about naming
> once the underlying features work then naming discussions can commence
>
> a big chunk of time was spent porting to the various combinations of
> architectures X os X compilers X build options
> a lot of it due to differing levels of support for the *at() syscalls
> which then kicked in different parts of the -last emulation code
>
> with adoption of *at() file descriptor leaks pop up all over the place
> to see how bad *at() coverage is on different os/release combinations compare
> $INSTALLROOT/src/lib/libast/FEATURE/atdev
> produced by
> $PACKAGEROOT/src/lib/libast/features/atdev.c
> on different os/release combinations
>
> one file descriptor leak in 3d+ksh brought down the entire build system
> it took a day to figure everything out and recover, including code checkins
> that sometimes did the opposite (keep old drop new)
> so once again there is no such thing as a simple patch
>
> don't use this alpha on linux.ia64 -- looks like *at() problems are lurking
> there
>
> look for ast runtime debugging tips in a separate message
>
> changes since 2013-08-14
Another bug (still trying to calm down over the cd -@ disaster):
namespaces don't work for compiled shell scripts:
test namespace begins at 2013-08-30+04:43:32
test namespace passed at 2013-08-30+04:43:32 [ 21 tests 0 errors ]
test namespace(shcomp) begins at 2013-08-30+04:43:32
/tmp/tmpdQ9k6Kl.MdM/shcomp-namespace.ksh: line 127: .a.b.x_t: not found
/tmp/tmpdQ9k6Kl.MdM/shcomp-namespace.ksh: line 128: var.pi: not found
discipline functions for types in namespace not working
/tmp/tmpdQ9k6Kl.MdM/shcomp-namespace.ksh: line 138:
.com.foo.test1.y_t: not found
/tmp/tmpdQ9k6Kl.MdM/shcomp-namespace.ksh: line 139: v.x.pr: not found
shcomp-namespace.ksh[139]: _.__ not working with nested types
in a namespace
test namespace(shcomp) failed at 2013-08-30+04:43:32 with exit code 1
[ 21 tests 1 error ]
Ced
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Cedric Blancher <[email protected]>
Institute Pasteur
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