We seem to have broken the Tru64 (Ermine) and the Mac OS X 10.1 (glastig) tinderboxen with yesterday's patchfest. Ermine is failing on the super-huge string test for some reason. Did we have a regression in this area somewhere? The redhat box I just added (see below) seems to demonstrate the problem intermittently, as well. Glastig seems to have some sort of makefile problem, and the box was added around the time of the cvs changes, so I'm not sure if the problem existed before today's changes or not (I'd assume so).
While we're on the tinderbox note, I just subscribed up for a Compaq Test Drive account (thanks due to schwern's wiki site). The boxes don't have any outgoing connections, and only support incoming on ftp and telnet. I severely hacked tinderbox.pl to upload cvs tar files to the boxes and run the test suites via telnet. You should see them in various states of workingness over the next few days as I try and iron out the bugs in my tinderbox.pl. Does anyone else have a similar situation where they might find this script useful? Is it worth me going in and bringing it up to the level of the current tinderbox code? (Yes, it's that bad. ;) Thanks, Mike Lambert Dan Sugalski wrote: > Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 14:15:04 -0400 > From: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Resync time... > > I just checked in some fixes to the GC and memory systems that should > (theoretically) make Parrot a darn sight more stable. Some > particularly stupid things (like we never ran through the Buffer pool > to collect their memory, nor did we mark aggregate's Buffer structs > as live) were fixed, as were potential issues like realloc taking > pointers to memory and not buffers. (Which meant the source memory > could get moved by a GC triggered by the allocation of the > destination, thus leaving you with a pointer to crap) > > Sync up and try it. Hopefully we're nicely stable now. > -- > Dan > > --------------------------------------"it's like this"------------------- > Dan Sugalski even samurai > [EMAIL PROTECTED] have teddy bears and even > teddy bears get drunk > >
