[elephant-devel] Updated version of last Postmodern patch bundle

[Robert L. Read]

Thank you.  That's good to know....possibly all the confusion is in the 
postmodern stuff.


On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 16:03 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:
> I pulled a fresh copy of the current head and I found one issue:
> 
> Mac OS X / Allegro / BDB 4.5 - no probs
> Mac OS X / Allegro / CLSQL - map-index-remove failed
> Mac OS X / SBCL / BDB 4.5 - no probs
> Mac OS X / SBCL / CLSQL - no probs
> 
> (I don't have a postgres test db setup at the moment)
> 
> Ian
> 
> On Mar 16, 2008, at 3:15 PM, Robert L. Read wrote:
> 
> > Dear Leslie and Ian Alex and Henrik,
> > 	I can see now that I did not apply Leslie's updated patch.  I  
> > attempted
> > to rollback and reapply the correct patch.  Unfortunately, I was  
> > unable
> > to get to a "green" state under any system.  I find darcs much  
> > harder to
> > work with than CVS (however, I had a great deal of experience with  
> > CVS.)
> >
> > 	So, unfortunately, Leslie, I cannot re-apply our patch.  If you have
> > working code, please compute another patch directly against the  
> > CURRENT
> > tip of the main development branch in the repository.  I will then  
> > apply
> > this and see if I can get to green.
> >
> > 	Furthermore, in attempt to solve this problem, I restored my local  
> > copy
> > to the head of the main repository, and am green only under BDB.
> >
> > 	I'm afraid things have gotten a little out of control, although I  
> > think
> > we are using proper discipline and committing things only when we are
> > green on the local systems that we can test on.  However, I would like
> > to get the main repository back to a "known working" state for my
> > systems (SBCL, BDB, Postgres, Postmodern, X86 architecture.)
> > 	
> > 	I think the best way to do this is for Leslie to get green and send  
> > me
> > a diff; if I still have problems after that I may have to look into
> > Ian's checkins.  As a last resort we can rollback patches until we get
> > to something working...but that is a last resort.
> >
> > 	If I can't get things worked out after Leslie sends me the patch,  
> > then
> > I may have to ask you guys to test against the head and send me your
> > results on your systems.
> >
> > 	Ian wants to make a release in a few weeks, and we really need to get
> > back to a solid state ahead of that.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 12:23 +0100, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
> >> Dear Robert,
> >>
> >> I posted an updated version of the patch shortly after, and it seems
> >> you applied the obsolete one. Can you check?
> >>
> >>
> >>> 	I did personally have some problems...perhaps because Bordeaux  
> >>> Threads
> >>> is not claiming to work on x86_64 architectures, darn it!
> >>
> >> Hrm, I guess it should just be a thin compatibility layer for SBCL.
> >> Does SBCL officially support threading on ia64?
> >>
> >>
> >>> 	So the upshot is that I am green under BDB and postmodern with your
> >>> changes, except for your test itself, which fails for me on sbcl  
> >>> 1.0.13
> >>> on an x86_64, apparently more because of the threading than the
> >>> reapoing.
> >>
> >> I will look into this when we have sorted out the patch problem.
> >>
> >>  Leslie
> >>
> >>
> >>
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