[LLVMdev] LLVM 1.6 Release Branch

[John Criswell]

Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, John Criswell wrote:
> 
>> Tanya Lattner wrote:
>>
>>> Everything builds fine on sparc. The configure script needs to be 
>>> fixed though (see previous email).
>>
>>
>> I'm not getting the error with the configure script (on Kain, anyway). 
>> I've tried it with --with-f2c and with f96 (NAG Fortran compiler) in 
>> and out of my $PATH.
>>
>> Can you verify that the configure script works for you without the 
>> --with-f2c option?  If it does, I think we'll just file a bug report 
>> and fix it in 1.7.
> 
> 
> Did you try with plain old bourne shell?  I agree that filing a bug and 
> adding a note about it to the release notes is fine.  However, Reid 
> mentioned that it should be trivial to fix for someone with configure 
> experience... ;-)

Yes, I've tried running it with Borne shell directly, with f2c in and 
out of my $PATH, and f95 in and out of my $PATH.  While I haven't tried 
all possible combinations, I've tried enough of them that I suspect that 
either Tanya doesn't have the right tree (unlikely) or that something in 
her environment variables is causing configure to act differently (more 
likely).

> 
>> As for the regressions below, it would be nice to get them fixed 
>> before the release, but I'm not sure if anybody has time to look into 
>> it.  If nobody has time, we'll probably ship it as is.
> 
> 
> I think that shipping with them is fine.  Unfortunately, until Sparc has 
> a platform maintainer/champion, it will continue to suffer.  If people 
> are interested in Sparc, fixing bugs at the beginning of the 1.7 cycle 
> would make sense.

Agreed.  No one has time to fix these.

> 
> What is left before 1.6 can ship?

The following:

1) Determine if Sparc llvm-test can configure with the f2c problem.  If 
it can, we file a bug.  If it can't, we fix it.

2) Any regressions that you want to fix in PPC.  If you're done, please 
let me know.

Otherwise, I think that's everything.


> 
> Thanks John and Tanya!

And Bill!

> 
> -Chris
> 


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John T. Criswell
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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