Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-14 Thread Devang Patel
On Jun 14, 2005, at 1:01 AM, Matthew Sachs wrote: And that's why someone (possibly me, ideally someone with more hardware to spare) should do runs against FSF mainline. One thing to watch out is the APPLE LOCAL patches in back-end/code gen area, particularly related to alignment and other

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-14 Thread Matthew Sachs
On Jun 13, 2005, at 19:49, Andrew Pinski wrote: On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Matthew Sachs wrote: I've been doing regular builds of Fink against Apple's branch, building our last release alongside our latest engineering build and comparing the two. See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/vie

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-13 Thread Mark Mitchell
Scott Robert Ladd wrote: Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely compiling a Linux system? I'm all for more testing -- but I have a standard rant about it being easier to run tests than to

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-13 Thread Andrew Pinski
On Jun 13, 2005, at 10:36 PM, Matthew Sachs wrote: I've been doing regular builds of Fink against Apple's branch, building our last release alongside our latest engineering build and comparing the two. See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/scripts/buildfink/ http://fink.ope

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-13 Thread Matthew Sachs
I've been doing regular builds of Fink against Apple's branch, building our last release alongside our latest engineering build and comparing the two. See: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/scripts/buildfink/ http://fink.opendarwin.org/build/2005-05-08/out/report.html

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-13 Thread Mike Stump
On Jun 12, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: Note, though, that this is only one part of the equation. A most significant amount of work also goes into analysing and potentially fixing packages which do not compile any longer and submit fixes upstream. :-( Sometimes we wish that gcc ha

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-12 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > Are you sure nobody is doing this? Or to phrase it differently: have > you checked Bugzilla and the ChangeLogs as to what kind of reports and > patches SUSE and Red Hat have contributed to GCC 4.0 in recent months > and weeks? :-) My suggestion stems from the code-generati

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-12 Thread René Rebe
Hi, On Sunday 12 June 2005 19:51, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like > > KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely > > compiling a Linux system? > > I'm willing to implement this, if it's deemed useful

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-12 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like > KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely > compiling a Linux system? Are you sure nobody is doing this? Or to phrase it differently: have you c

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-09 Thread R Hill
Scott Robert Ladd wrote: Joe Buck wrote: With 4.0.0, compiling a complete GNU/Linux distribution reveals bugs in GCC, but even more bugs in C++ software that is not valid C++. Assuming we can get the distros to fix the latter set of problems... I don't have a good solution for this problem, ot

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-09 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
Joe Buck wrote: > With 4.0.0, compiling a complete GNU/Linux distribution reveals bugs > in GCC, but even more bugs in C++ software that is not valid C++. > Assuming we can get the distros to fix the latter set of problems... I don't have a good solution for this problem, other than education. >

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-09 Thread Scott Robert Ladd
Arthur Nascimento wrote: >>Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like >>KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely >>compiling a Linux system? > Yes, people do it all the time. Check Sourcemage, LFS and DIY: > > http://www.sourcemage.org

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-09 Thread Arthur Nascimento
2005/6/9, Scott Robert Ladd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like > KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely > compiling a Linux system? Yes, people do it all the time. Check Sourcemage, LFS and DIY: http://

Re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-09 Thread Joe Buck
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 04:42:33PM -0400, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like > KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely > compiling a Linux system? With 4.0.0, compiling a complete GNU/Linux distributi

re: A Suggestion for Release Testing

2005-06-09 Thread Daniel Kegel
Scott wrote: > Given the recent problems with the 4.0.0 release and major packages like > KDE and the kernel, has anyone considered testing releases by completely > compiling a Linux system? It's kind of hard to do for a new major release, since the apps and kernel might not be ported yet, but 4.