Re: [HACKERS] (: JDBC+(Sun ~3:pm MST) CVS :) -also question about regression tests

> > JDBC works
> > postgres works
> > platform : linux (I'm not posting kernel version! it doesn't matter!! :)
> > egcs-2.91.06 (gcc-2.8.0 with haifa scheduler + other updates)
> > glibc-2.0.5c from RedHat-5.0 distrib - should be stable
> > [but with full crypt, locale]
> >
> > But : Here's output from regression tests:
> > Is there anything wrong with the failed tests? (is it known?)
>
> I get the same regression output. checkresults shows you the problems,
> and it mostly error message words or rounding.

Hmm. A linux box is used to generate the expected results, so we need to be
more careful here. I suspect that you have date/time trouble reported earlier
by (Oliver?? can't find the e-mail, sorry). A few of the math functions in
glibc2.0.x were misbehaving, leading to troubles like '3 hours 59 minutes 60
seconds' rather than '4 hours' in timespan output.

That person submitted patches, but they were pretty specific to the glibc2
problems. Of course, I've already got some ugly code in there because Solaris
had some similar broken math, so perhaps we should figure out how to extract
all of the busted code into the port-specific files?

- Tom