John Darrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I suggest that we don't spend time on these problems. Frankly, I'm beginning > to think that it's a gcc problem rather than our own problem. > > I suggest that we just mention in the release notes that problems have been > reported on Solaris, and recommend that Solaris users compile with > CFLAGS="-g -O0". > > Similarly with the Mac issue just mention that the Mac gcc 4.0.0 must be > build 5026 and that build 4061 causes problems.
Yes, I agree that we shouldn't let these minor problems hold up release. I'm going to release 0.4.0 tomorrow, I think, barring anything more important coming up. I added those notes to INSTALL: + +A few system-specific issues have been noted. These may be PSPP bugs +or system bugs; we have not yet been able to track them down precisely: + + * On Solaris, one or more tests may fail `make check'. We have + only seen this reported on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.4.2. Our + reporter says that turning off optimization (with -O0) at least + masked the symptoms. + + * On Mac OS X, GCC 4.0.0 build 4061 has been observed to cause + some tests to fail. Later builds should work fine. > I haven't tried RC5 under GNU/Hurd yet. I'll try to do that in the next few > days. Okay. I don't think there's reason to wait for that, though: Hurd is not a very important target. (Uh-oh, RMS is going to come after me for that.) -- "There's only one thing that will make them stop hating you. And that's being so good at what you do that they can't ignore you. I told them you were the best. Now you damn well better be." --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Game_ _______________________________________________ pspp-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev
