On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 11:45 PM, Daniel Shahaf <d...@daniel.shahaf.name> wrote: > Johan Corveleyn wrote on Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 15:35:21 +0100: >> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > Now, I have pinpointed the exact revision where the problems start for >> > me. It's r1338286, where Bert enabled whole program optimizations for >> > release builds, in the vcnet_vcxproj.ezt file. >> > >> > Maybe I'm running into some compiler bug (that has since been fixed in >> > SP1), related to whole program optimization. I'll try installing SP1 >> > (but not right now, it's past 3 am now :-)) and see what happens. >> >> Finally got around to it, and indeed, the problem is solved when I use >> VC2010 SP1. Test suite is running smoothly, and both >> mergeinfo-test.exe and skel-test.exe have already succeeded. >> >> Now I finally have a good developer environment again, phew. >> >> Conclusion: don't use VC2010 without SP1. > > Can we make the build scripts trap that condition? (and error out, or > disable whole-program optimisations)
Good suggestion, but I have no idea really :-). I don't know enough about the build scripts and project settings, and gen-make stuff etc ... But maybe someone else here has the expertise to pull this off? -- Johan
