Re: [Gcl-devel] 2.6.2

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings!  

OK please have a look at

http://people.debian.org/~camm/GCL_2_6_2_tests.html

and let me know what I've forgotten.  Issues of presentation aside,
green means pass, yellow means unimplemented feature, red means known
bug, and blank means untested.  We need to add notes in the relevant
boxes where items like specific gcc compiler versions needed or other
details are applicable.  I'm thinking a number with a footnote might
be best.  We also of course need some introductory text, and maybe
some representative timings.  In general, we'd like to make this page
highlight the achievements made in GCL development and hopefully
attract a degree of respect for and interest in the project.  We can
always use more man hours :-).

In addition, some of you might wish to contribute a README text file
containing specific items you've discovered about your build.  If so,
please do this ASAP.

Aurelien, I've put SGC on MacOSX in light green as there are problem
reports.  Where do we stand?

Magnus, pc-nqthm-1992 needs a larger value stack.  echo '(setq
si::*multiply-stacks* 16)(si::save-system "foo")' | ./saved_gcl && mv
foo saved_gcl and proceed from there if youd like.  The nqthm is
likely a data segment limit as you've noted.

I'm going to try to do some FreeBSD tests this weekend.  Mark, if you
want to chime in now is the time :-).

In general, presentation issues like these are definitely not my
forte, and I would *greatly* appreciate someone coming to the fore and
offering suggestions, or simply editing the page to taste and posting
it to the list for discussion.

Take care,

Camm Maguire <address@hidden> writes:

> 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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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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