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Re: 3.8 Release Candidate Builds
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PhilipNienhuis |
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Re: 3.8 Release Candidate Builds |
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Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:39:04 -0700 (PDT) |
Rik-4 wrote
> Everyone,
>
> We will soon be in a position to start building release candidates and
> getting feedback on Octave 3.8. But, we don't need to go to users with an
> RC1 when we already know there are bugs in the build process. I have
> culled the list of "Configuration and Build System" bugs from savannah and
> put them on the 3.8 Bug Fix List
> (http://wiki.octave.org/3.8_Bug_Fix_List#Bugs_marked_Configuration_and_Build_System).
>
> And to be thorough, here they are:
>
> * Owner: ??? #40358 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40358> Octave
> Java
> classes missing on 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04
> * Owner: ??? #40356 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40356> Please
> ship an
> AppData file upstream
> * Owner: ??? #40321 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40321> MXE /
> MinGW -
> mkoctfile fails (& doesn't pick up compile flags)
> * Owner: ??? #40273 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40273> 'sed'
> is used
> even if a different value for 'SED' is specified during configure
> * Owner: ??? #40252 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40252> Make
> GUI
> compatible with both Qt4 and Qt5
> * Owner: ??? #40111 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40111> Support
> runtime selection of Java version on Linux and Unix systems
> * Owner: ??? #39856 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39856> Cannot
> compile
> an Oct-File in Windows 7 64 or Vista 64 oct file
> * Owner: ??? #39465 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39465>
> configure
> needs jvm.dll for Windows builds
> * Owner: ??? #39454 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39454> Fix
> building
> core Java support for MinGW builds
> * Owner: ??? #39446 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?39446>
> MXE-Octave:
> LAPACK build mixes MinGW and MSVC
> * Owner: ??? #38928 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38928>
> confugure ->
> hdf5 doesn't handle path through
> * Owner: ??? #38776 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38776> Tests
> in
> private functions cannot be tested directly
> * Owner: ??? #38351 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38351>
> mkoctfile -p
> returns wrong flags on mingw.
> * Owner: ??? #36477 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36477> use XDG
> dirs
> instead of HOME
> * Owner: ??? #36064 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?36064>
> MAGICK_X extra
> flags are shadowed by system CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS
> * Owner: ??? #35207 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35207> add
> gl2ps to
> the configure script
> * Owner: ??? #34301 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34301> Can't
> compile
> oct files using gcc -fvisibility=hidden option
> * Owner: ??? #34169 <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34169> Support
> -f
> compiler flags in mkoctfile
>
>
> We don't need to fix every one just now, but I think it would be a good
> idea to knock off half of them before we start in with the release
> candidate cycle.
>
> Cheers,
> Rik
I think Anirudha already has a fix for bug #39465 in his mxe-octave branch.
<OT> I think it is about time that his work gets merged into the 'formal'
mxe-octave branch.
Philip
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