4.1.0 Release Candidate: gnats-4_1_0-rc2

4.1.0 Release Candidate: gnats-4_1_0-rc2

[Chad Walstrom]

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Release candidate rc2 is available in the CVS repository, tagged
gnats-4_1_0-rc2.  There has been a substantial cleanup, multiple bug
fixes, and performance enhancements in this release candidate.  Please
test and report any bugs you have to bug-gnats@gnu.org and indicate
the "Release" you're using.

If you would like a patch included before the official release of
4.1.0, send it to help-gnats@gnu.org.

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Re: 4.1.0 Release Candidate: gnats-4_1_0-rc2

['Chad Walstrom']

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David S Gathright wrote:
> What's the timeframe looking like for the 4.1 release?  We're about to
> move into a (much) larger scale deployment of the GNATS system and I'd
> prefer not to upgrade the GNATS system just after that.

I'm CC'ing help-gnats@gnu.org to soliciting opinions.  I wanted to make
sure we could build on all platforms before releasing.  I believe there
were a couple FreeBSD issues with rc1 [1]_ that I hope have gone away
now that we've dropped libiberty and friends.

We need some testing, essentially.  Once we confirm that everything
compiles on platforms that GNATS is used, I'll tag the release in CVS
and roll the tarball.

One thing that I've run in to is making sure that getdate.c doesn't get
recompiled using bison > 1.35.  Bison 1.875d, the default on Debian,
does not produce viable output with our getdate.y file. This might be a
good candidate for gnulib addition.  I'll send a bug to bug-gnats.  In
any case, if you don't rebuild getdate.c or if you use bison 1.35,
everything seems to compile just fine.

.. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnats/2004-11/msg00012.html

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Re: 4.1.0 Release Candidate: gnats-4_1_0-rc2

['Chad Walstrom']

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O.K. folks, let's see if we can't give David a more specific answer.

Tim, if you could test RC2 on your FreeBSD 4.9 platform (the one you
previously had issues with [1]_), I would greatly appreciate it.

.. [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnats/2004-11/msg00012.html

Yngve, I believe you were running some Sun machines, right?  Could you
see if they have the same problems you quoted earlier? [2]_

.. [2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnats/2004-11/msg00010.html

I'll go over the bug list [3]_ for any high-priority fixes that still
might need to be included.  I'll also concentrate on cleaning up the
Debian packages for the new release and do some testing with them on
Debian sarge on sparc64 and i386.

.. [3] http://skuld.wookimus.net/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?database=gnats

If all goes well, we may be able to roll this beast out this weekend.

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