Re: gEDA-user: Preparing gEDA 1.6.1 for Gentoo

[Peter Clifton <pcjc2@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 13:03 +0100, Stefan Salewski wrote:
> Seems to compile fine, without too many warnings...
> 
> Sorry, one question left:
> 
> Is the "test phase causes make forkbomb", see
> 
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=296654
> 
> fixed now? Tests works fine for my AMD64 box, but that is only a dual
> core.

I don't think it is something _we_ have changed, but I might be wrong.
It could be an auto* bug which has been fixed - but I'm not sure.

The only fork-bomb I've seen reported related to UTF-8 characters in the
input to some of hte gettext infrastructure. That is now fixed, but in
any case.. the issue only arose on git HEAD, not the stable-1.6 branch.


> One remark: gEDA still needs guile 1.8.x built with option "deprecated".
> This is the default for Gentoo, but maybe not for all other
> distributions, so maybe it should be specified in release notes?

Perhaps - although it is probably too late now! Remind us before we
release 1.6.1 or 1.7.0, for example!

Longer term, it would be good to fix any usage of APIs deprecated in
guile 1.8. (Ideally for the 1.7.x series, and certainly prior to 1.8.0)

Best wishes,

-- 
Peter Clifton

Electrical Engineering Division,
Engineering Department,
University of Cambridge,
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