Pretest/release plans

Pretest/release plans

[Chong Yidong]

Because there have been a number of non-trivial bugfixes since 24.0.96,
I will make a 24.0.97 pretest this coming Wednesday, the 16th.  Please
plan your commits accordingly.

The only other major issue I am concerned about for the release is the
mysterious GC problem on Mac OS (Bug#11395), so if some Mac user could
help track that down by providing concrete debbugging details or
bisecting, that would be great.

If nothing major crops up, I hope to make the release candidate at the
end of the month.

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Leo]

On 2012-05-13 09:46 +0800, Chong Yidong wrote:
> If nothing major crops up, I hope to make the release candidate at the
> end of the month.

There are a few cc-mode regressions. I wonder if they will be fixed for
the release? Thanks.

Leo

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Chong Yidong]

Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2012-05-13 09:46 +0800, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> If nothing major crops up, I hope to make the release candidate at the
>> end of the month.
>
> There are a few cc-mode regressions. I wonder if they will be fixed
> for the release? Thanks.

Which are you referring to?

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Leo]

On 2012-05-15 23:22 +0800, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> There are a few cc-mode regressions. I wonder if they will be fixed
>> for the release? Thanks.
>
> Which are you referring to?

From my reports: bug#11152 and bug#11165. There might be others.

Leo

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hello, Yidong and Leo.

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:22:34AM +0800, Leo wrote:
> On 2012-05-15 23:22 +0800, Chong Yidong wrote:
> >> There are a few cc-mode regressions. I wonder if they will be fixed
> >> for the release? Thanks.

> > Which are you referring to?

> >>From my reports: bug#11152 and bug#11165. There might be others.

Message received!

> Leo

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Michael Welsh Duggan]

Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:

> Hello, Yidong and Leo.
>
> On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 12:22:34AM +0800, Leo wrote:
>> On 2012-05-15 23:22 +0800, Chong Yidong wrote:
>> >> There are a few cc-mode regressions. I wonder if they will be fixed
>> >> for the release? Thanks.
>
>> > Which are you referring to?
>
>> >>From my reports: bug#11152 and bug#11165. There might be others.
>
> Message received!

#11448 is also technically a regression.

-- 
Michael Welsh Duggan
(mwd@cert.org)

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Glenn Morris]

Chong Yidong wrote:

> Because there have been a number of non-trivial bugfixes since 24.0.96,
> I will make a 24.0.97 pretest this coming Wednesday, the 16th.  Please
> plan your commits accordingly.

Some bugs to consider:

Wrong CPP (?) on several older platforms:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/11485

Emacs won't configure on Mac OS X with gcc 4.6 onwards (fix in trunk?):
http://debbugs.gnu.org/9755

Emacs won't dump on Mac OS X with gcc 4.6 onwards:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/9927
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2630203


The last two seem like the kind of thing that might become an annoyance
as gcc 4.6 becomes more widespread.

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Chong Yidong]

Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Wrong CPP (?) on several older platforms:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/11485

Off the top of my head, this seems a bit too non-trivial to introduce
now.  We can add a description to PROBLEMS, including a patch.

> Emacs won't configure on Mac OS X with gcc 4.6 onwards (fix in trunk?):
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/9755

I think removing -no-cpp-precomp should be ok for emacs-24, if that is
only for supporting a bug in a nearly 10-year-old vendor-modified
compiler.  But could someone with access to Mac OS please first verify
that emacs-24 builds when this change is made?

> Emacs won't dump on Mac OS X with gcc 4.6 onwards:
> http://debbugs.gnu.org/9927
> http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2630203

If there is no fix on hand for that, I'd rather not wait.

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Chong Yidong]

Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> writes:

> I think removing -no-cpp-precomp should be ok for emacs-24, if that is
> only for supporting a bug in a nearly 10-year-old vendor-modified
> compiler.  But could someone with access to Mac OS please first verify
> that emacs-24 builds when this change is made?

Actually, nevermind---I just saw your message that even with this
change, Emacs still doesn't dump with gcc-4.6 on OS X.  So it's not
worth it.

Does anyone know if Bug#9927 exists for Emacs 23 as well, or if it is an
Emacs 24 regression?

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Paul Eggert]

On 05/16/2012 04:03 AM, Chong Yidong wrote:

> Does anyone know if Bug#9927 exists for Emacs 23 as well, or if it is an
> Emacs 24 regression?

I just now asked Peter Dyballa (the original reporter)
about that, here:

http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=9927#13

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Chong Yidong]

> If nothing major crops up, I hope to make the release candidate at the
> end of the month.

I will make the release candidate on the 31st.  Please plan your commits
accordingly, and let me know if there is any issue that you think is a
blocker.  Thanks.

Re: Pretest/release plans

[Chong Yidong]

Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org> writes:

> I will make the release candidate on the 31st.  Please plan your
> commits accordingly, and let me know if there is any issue that you
> think is a blocker.  Thanks.

Sorry for the delay.  (I wanted to see if there was a quick solution for
Bug#11541; but that is not a regression against Emacs 23 and
unreproducible on some setups, so I don't think it's worth waiting for
it now.)  I will make the release candidate shortly.