Matthias Klose wrote:
Hi, we did need the packages as a build dependency for gcc-snapshot (trunk). the testsuite is run, but we don't abort the build on errors. see the build logs at http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=ppl,
Hi Matthias,
I have checked the build logs, but `make check' does not seem to be run. In contrast, `make world' is run into the `doc' subdirectory: this generates tons of developer references that I doubt are of any interest to the ordinary user. If you can let us know which kind of documentation you want to include in the package, we can advise.
Concerning tests, I think it is very important that `make check' is run on each architecture to make sure there are no problems: perhaps not on every build (since it is a very heavy procedure), but at least before any release.
current bug reports at http://bugs.debian.org/src:ppl.
I had a look at them: I have fixed one in CVS (the next PPL 0.10 snapshot will come in a few days). For the other bug, I have offered help.
In general, at least for the PPL, reporting the bugs upstream is the quickest way to have them fixed.
I hope that Arthur Loiret can provide access to an alpha machine. Note that Debian conigures gcc on alpha to include -mieee by default. for testing you'll find other gcc versions installed on this machine (gcc-4.x).
Notice that -mieee is not enough: according to the GCC documentation you need -mieee-with-inexact, and even that is not enough to obtain full IEEE 754 compliance (see http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2008-09/msg00400.html). We are testing right now a new configuration procedure that should be able to detect and work around such bogus implementations of floats.
Concerning the access to machines, thanks to FSF Europe we have access to an Alpha. What we miss, is access to the following: ia64, hppa, arm, s390, mips, mipsel, sparc (but we have sparc64), armel, and m68k.
All the best,
Roberto