Re: [HACKERS] Current sources?

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>

From: "Thomas G. Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>
To: David Gould <dg@illustra.com>
Cc: scrappy@hub.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 1998-06-02T13:56:17Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > It is important that
> > whoever is running the "reference platform" be willing to run 
> > regression tests ad nauseum, and to track down any problems.
> Ok, I will make a set of Linux glibc expected files for 6.3.2 and if 
> that works send them in. Not sure how to handle the reference Linux vs 
> glibc Linux issue in terms of the way the tests are structured and 
> platforms named, but they do have different rounding behavior and 
> messages.

I'm running RH5.0 at work, but have RH4.2 at home. I'm reluctant to
upgrade at home because I have _all_ Postgres releases from v1.0.9 to
current installed and I can fire them up for testing in less than a
minute. If I upgrade to the new glibc2, I might have trouble rebuilding
the old source trees. Anyway, will probably upgrade sometime in the next
few months, and then the reference platform will be glibc2-based.

If you are generating new "expected" files for glibc2 shouldn't they be
based on the current development tree? Or are you providing them as a
patch for v6.3.2 to be installed in /pub/patches??

                   - Tom