Re: RC5 build issues on various platforms

[Ben Pfaff]

John Darrington <address@hidden> 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.)
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