Tuesday Release

[jerry gay]

On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 07:28, Andrew Whitworth <wknight8111 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Andrew Dougherty
> <doughera at lafayette.edu> wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Andrew Whitworth wrote:
>>
>>> 4) Two tasks on the roadmap are listed as "at risk", meaning they
>>> might not land before the release. To anybody with a few extra tuits
>>> and strong C-foo, I need some help in the calling_conventions branch
>>> tracking down a nasty and confusing bug.
>>
>> Unfortunately, I tried haven't been able to even get this to build.  Last
>> night, I set off a job to build it, but it failed due to some MANIFEST
>> issues.  I fixed them later in the evening and restarted the build, but it
>> still failed.  Earlier this morning, I re-ran 'svn up' to sync up to rev
>> 33761, and it still fails to build with syntax errors (patch below) in
>> src/multidispatch.c.  Fixing those, it now fails to build with linker
>> errors, for which I don't have a patch handy.
>
> Yes, it looks like I was relatively sloppy with my C++ comments. I'll
> go in and fix them if they are going to be causing people grief. All
> those linker errors look like they're from the IO branch merge. I hate
> to ask, but have you done a "make realclean" on the branch?
>
i've done realclean, and i get linker errors. my work on the branch
has completely blocked on this issue, and i'm digging into it now.
~jerry