Tuesday Release

[Andy Dougherty]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, Andrew Whitworth 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?

Better -- I did 'rm -rf' on the build directory and re-built it from a 
clean checkout.

The '//' comments are a very minor thing; I usually patch them as I 
encounter them.  I included a patch for them in my previous e-mail.

It's just that I tried twice to fire off a build to run overnight and both 
times it got tripped up by irrelevant little details.  Then today, I still 
couldn't build it.

The net result is I couldn't do anything useful to try to help out, and my 
available time window is now past.  Sorry about that.

-- 
    Andy Dougherty		doughera at lafayette.edu