On 30 August 2013 05:11, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> wrote: > 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):
Would you quit whining, please? I think we got the picture Lionel _______________________________________________ ast-developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-developers
