On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Jason Edgecombe <[email protected]>wrote:

> Marc Dionne wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Ken Hornstein<[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I think that historically, head and 1.5.x have simply scared
>>>> developers into using 1.4 as a base.  I recall a period of close to a
>>>> year (maybe more) where head wouldn't even build on Linux when rxtcp
>>>> was in there, and 1.5 was usually not that much better.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> rxtcp was always on a branch; if you selected that branch, you should
>>> have
>>> known what you were getting in to.
>>>
>>> --Ken
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You're right that it wasn't rxtcp, I think it was
>> bringing-rx-into-21st-century-20060504 which was later taken out of
>> head with taking-rx-back-into-the-20th-century-20061228.
>>
>> My point was not the specific breakage (there were surely other things
>> as well), but more the fact that at least on Linux, head was not
>> buildable for quite a long time.
>>
>>
> Do the tinderbox test boxes help to alleviate this?


Yes, somewhat.

Any idea what's wrong with HPUX? Me either. Compiler SEGVing isn't really
something one can sensibly do something with.

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