[Gcl-devel] 2.6.2

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!

OK, I've made a branch tag Version_2_6_2pre, and a non-branch
(i.e. read-only) tag Version_2_6_2c1.  My intention is that nothing
else will go into 2.6.2 except for release notes describing the
results of testing as outlined below.  So I would like to request the
following from our official port maintainers, which to my
understanding are:

GNU/Linux, Debian 12 platforms, FC1: me
OpenBSD : Magnus Henoch
FreeBSD : Mark Murray (if still around), otherwise me
MacOSX  : Aurelien
Windows : Mike Thomas, with Vadim and David Billinghurst perhaps assisting
Solaris : me

to the extent time permits:

1) checkout Version_2_6_2c1
2) report the results of self building under the permutations of the
   major configuration and building options:
        a) linking:
                1) dlopen
                2) statsysbfd or locbfd (indicate which)
                3) custreloc
        b) flavor: ansi or cltl1
        c) gbc: SGC or not
        d) gcc versions: (if there are several popular but differing
                                versions in wide use)
3) report the results of the ansi test suite on the build using the
   configuration options you recommend
4) in the ansi-tests directory of the CVS head branch, run the random
   tester on your recommended build for as long as practicable, and report
   the results, including the parameters specifying the size of the
   generated test forms
5) compile maxima 5.9.0 using the cltl1 build (preferably) and report
   the results of 'time make check'
6) compile maxima cvs with the ansi build and report the results of
   'time make check'
7) compile acl2 2.8 and report the results of 'time make
   certify-books-fresh'
8) retrieve axiom cvs, copy or link your build tree to lsp/gcl-2.6.2a;
   touch lsp/gcldir; run AXIOM=$(pwd)/mnt/foo make; run 'find int
   -name "*.lsp" -exec touch {} \;'; run 'find int -name "*.lisp"
   -exec touch {} \;'; run AXIOM=$(pwd)/mnt/foo make; rm
   int/input/*.output; run and report 'AXIOM=$(pwd)/mnt/foo time make'
9) (very optional) retrieve nqthm-1992 and pc-nqthm-1992, build, and
   report the results of 'time make giant-tests'

Please collect any special library or compiler tool versions you need,
OS version, etc. and report these as footnotes, or parenthetical
remarks.  Also please note any known bugs or issues (apart from ansi
test failures), indicating in as much detail as practicable what is
known about the problem, and how a would be reader could best help
resolve it.  I'm thinking all this should be under a screenful of
text.  I'm also hoping to summarize these in table format on the
website.  Once collected (whatever we end up collecting, that is),
we'll add these as README.foo files into the Version_2_6_2pre branch
and CVS head, and then tag (read-only) Version_2_6_2pre as
Version_2_6_2.  I'll upload a source tarball to ftp.gnu.org, and then
I'd like to request binary packages from the port maintainers as
practicable. 

Comments/suggestions of course always appreciated.

Take care,

"Vadim V. Zhytnikov" <address@hidden> writes:

> Camm Maguire:
> > Greetings!
> > Just an idea to float:  what do we all think of punting for the time
> > being on the remaining windows issues and leaving them for 2.7?  This
> > suggestion is predicated on the assumption that fully functional
> > maxima, acl2 (and hopefully axiom) can be generated with at least some
> > settings/patches reliably and reproducibly with all recent gcc, which
> > I think is correct.  Thoughts?
> >
> 
> Sounds good to me.  GCL 2.6.1 (2.6.2) is stable enough to be useful on
> Windows - I'm judging from the Maxima's point of view.
> After all as soon some crucial fix/fixes to Windows problems
> will be ready we can release GCL 2.6.3 as bug-fix release.
> 
> -- 
>       Vadim V. Zhytnikov
> 
>       <address@hidden>
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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