<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">The 2.7 pre-release2 is available for testing:<div><a href="http://llvm.org/pre-releases/2.7/pre-release2/">http://llvm.org/pre-releases/2.7/pre-release2/</a></div><div><br></div><div><b>Please complete all testing by April 23rd EOD</b>. We are shortening this testing period a bit to get the release out soon since its been delayed so far. The release team has done our qualifications and we think its of high quality and ready to go.</div><div><br></div><div>As this is the last pre-release, we only accept fixes for absolutely critical bugs as defined by our release criteria:</div><div><a href="http://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html#release-qualify">http://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html#release-qualify</a></div><div><br></div><div>If you are able to test this pre-release, we ask that you try the following:</div><div><br></div><div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">To test llvm-gcc:
</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">1) Compile llvm from source and untar the llvm-test in the projects directory (name it llvm-test or test-suite). Choose to use a pre-compiled llvm-gcc or re-compile it yourself.</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">2) Run make check, report any failures (FAIL or unexpected pass). Note that you need to reconfigure llvm with llvm-gcc in your path or with --with-llvmgccdir</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">3) Run "make TEST=nightly report" and compare your results with 2.6 if possible.</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><br></span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">To test clang:</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">1) Compile llvm and clang from source.</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">2) Run make check for llvm.</span></font></div><div style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">3) Run <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Monaco, Helvetica, 'Luxi Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 10px; ">make -C tools/clang-<span style="color: rgb(28, 0, 207); ">2.6</span> test VERBOSE=<span style="color: rgb(28, 0, 207); ">1 <font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">(report any failures or unexpected passes)</span></font></font></span></span></span></font></div></div><div>4) Reconfigure llvm-test/llvm to use clang to run the test-suite (make TEST=nightly report) and compare the results with 2.6 if possible.</div><div><br></div><div>If you think you have found a release blocker, please file a bug and have it block this bug:</div><div><a href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6586">http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=6586</a></div><div><br></div><div>We also ask that you try clang or llvm-gcc on various applications. Please note that any bugs found will be fixed in TOT, but not in the release.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks!</div><div>-Tanya</div></body></html>