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Re: RC1?

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

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From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk>
Cc: "Peter Eisentraut" <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Bruce Momjian" <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-11-14T03:30:30Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews@investsystems.co.uk> writes:
> > FWIW, gmake check and gmake bigcheck pass on:
> > FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Feb  3 23:48:56 GMT 2000
>
> > with the expection of:
> > [snipped]
> > in the float8 test.
>
> Okay, looks like we need to use float8-fp-exception.out on your
> platform.  This is a bit surprising since resultmap presently shows
>
> 	float8/i.86-.*-freebsd=float8-small-is-zero
>
> How shall we distinguish your version of freebsd from the ones that
> need the other comparison file?

He is using the FreeBSD 3.x series (which is quite old now), whereas most
people are probably using 4.x.  I have no problems with regression tests on
4.x so perhaps it's something that changed??

Actually, I've only tested FreeBSD/alpha 4.x - perhaps I should test intel
as well.

Chris