Re: PSPP-BUG: segfault in PSPP

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 09:38:57PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>
>      Might be useful at some point.  But I am very fortunate to be a
>      Debian developer, with access to all of the Debian development
>      machines:
>              http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi
>      Hard to beat them for porting to GNU/Linux architectures.
>
> I haven't yet decided if that's what I will install on them.

I think I may have been unclear: Debian has something like 50
machines of various architectures for use by Debian developers
for porting, etc.  The above URL lists the available machines.
I've been using these, most recently, to debug PSPP on powerpc
and amd64.

But you have to be a Debian developer to use them, and it's not
an easy process to become one (anymore: it was easy when I
joined).

>      The HP TestDrive service is also a useful resource that anyone
>      can use:
>              http://www.testdrive.hp.com
>
> I tried that out a several years ago.  Unfortunately the necessary
> tools for building anthing other than a very simple application were
> not available.

It is true that they don't have tools like autoconf, automake,
libtool, etc., installed.  That makes building from CVS a pain.
But building from a tarball produced by "make dist" is
straightforward.
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