Re: New minor release?

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Zdenek Kotala<Zdenek(dot)Kotala(at)sun(dot)com> wrote:

> I try it on latest Nevada build and I'm not able to reproduce. Some bugs
> seems are related to the Advanced Server which I don't have installed.

Understood.

> And of course I don't have Chines keyboard ;-).

Copy 'n' paste is your friend :-)

>> - The builds the QA team were testing are from our change management
>> (CM) team. I believe they were using the Sun Studio compiler. At one
>> point they were also using a custom build of GTK to work around some
>> nasty bugs, the details of which escape me at present.
>
> It is good to know that GCC on Sparc is buggy and slow. I seen also that
> some issue are reported on old S10 version. You should retest it on
> latest version of S10 which is update 7. At least S10U4 contains libxml
> which is required.

Right - but our customers run older versions too, so we try to test a range.

> You can look
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/lib/wxwidgets/
> We build it with the latest SUN Studio. For S10 we used older Sun
> Studio. Both works fine as well.

Hmm - I ran into some macro conflicts when I tried. I found some
emails about the same on the wxWidgets list, which basically said
there are conflicts with the latest headers from Sun Studio - from
what I could gather this was to be fixed in wxWidgets 3.x, but in the
meantime, the answer was to use an older Sun Studion (which I couldn't
find for download) or GCC.

I'll see if I can get a good build based on the opensolaris makefile.

>> - Most of these issues seem to be Sparc specific, and some are Solaris
>> 9 specific (mainly the sizing related ones I think).
>
> Are they sparc specific because you don't have x86 Solaris 9 or does it
> really problem on the Sparc build.

Well some are Sparc 9 & 10, but not x86 Solaris 10. We don't support
x86 Solaris 9 so haven't tested that.

>> I was going to give these more attention when my hardware turns up,
>> but if you can knock any off, or show they are something specific to
>> CM's build/environment that'd be most helpful. In any case, all of
>> these potentially affect community users, so I'd like to clear out as
>> many as possible before 1.10.1.
>
> You can see how pgadmin is built on Solaris. I commit 1.10 today and it
> should be visible tomorrow
> http://src.opensolaris.org/source/xref/sfw/usr/src/cmd/postgres/pgadmin/

I can only see 1.8 there - but the Makefile is there of course, which
may be useful.

Thanks!

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Dave Page
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