Re: New release of the gnustep-base library please test trunk

[Quentin Mathé]

Le 24 juil. 2013 à 09:56, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :

> On 23 Jul 2013, at 18:11, Quentin Mathé <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Richard,
>> 
>> Le 12 juil. 2013 à 09:16, Richard Frith-Macdonald a écrit :
>> 
>>> I'd like to make a new release of gnustep-base in the near future.
>>> We have a big patch needing merging in which will introduce binary 
>>> incompatible changes, so this would probably be the last significant 
>>> release in the 1.24 series, and would be 1.24.5
>>> The 1.24.5 release will provide quite a large number of minor bugfixes, 
>>> particularly on 64 bit platforms.   This version includes checking of 
>>> printf-style format string arguments when building using clang, and should 
>>> be free of any faults detected by the clang static anlyser.
>>> I'd like it to be a version we can confidently advise people to use, so 
>>> please could people download and test base from svn trunk as much as 
>>> possible during the next few days.
>> 
>> With today SVN r36916 for libobjc2 and GNUstep Base compiled with Clang 3.2 
>> on Linux x86-32, I get the following results:
>> 
>>  7834 Passed tests
>>    21 Dashed hopes
>>     3 Failed tests
>> 
>> The failing tests are:
>> 
>> base/NSNotification/basic.m:
>> Failed test:       decoded object equals the original
>> Failed test:       
>> /System/Library/Makefiles/TestFramework/ObjectTesting.h:265 ... decoded 
>> object equals the original
>> Failed test:       Object 0 of class 'NSNotification' copy and original are 
>> equal
> 
> Thanks .
> I've not seen that test failure before.  It looks like the -isEqual: method 
> (inherited from NSObject) is failing, which is really strange.
> Please could you investigate (eg run under gdb to see what's going on), to 
> see if somerthing strange is being linked in or if there's a compiler bug, or 
> something else?


The problem disappeared just after reinstalling GNUstep Make. Not sure why, but 
now all the tests pass.

Thanks,
Quentin.