Re: Why upgrading sucks

[Eric Blake]

Once again, I meant to send my reply to the list originally...

Eric Blake wrote:
> 
> Brian Jones wrote:
> >
> > I had to share my pain so I hope someone else finds this funny.
> > Tonight I updated to Red Hat 7.2 and afterwards applied the necessary
> > updates as noted by Red Hat.  Then I created RPMs of the newest
> > libtool, automake, and autoconf and installed those.  After twiddling
> > with the various files like updating ltmain.sh and adding depcomp
> > turns out that the Jikes I now have seg faults building our
> > source... so I'm going to sleep.  I'll install gcc 3.0.2 soon (in a
> > standalone fashion away from my current gcc) and presumably won't have
> > to deal with the Jikes problem.  Hopefully Eric Blake can shed some
> > light on this and offer a suggestion for what Jikes to use.
> 
> Which version of jikes does RedHat 7.2 ship with?  1.15 has some known
> segfaults when compiling nested classes in a static context, which
> escaped through the release process.  The patch that caused the problems
> has since been reverted from CVS, if you are willing to try
> bleeding-edge versions.  Or, if you prefer a specific time, the
> ChangeLog shows that the regression was fixed on Oct 15; and I can
> verify that the Jikes CVS tree was stable and successfully compiled
> classpath on Oct 18.
> 
> Otherwise, all I can say is stick to 1.14; although I haven't tried that
> version on classpath myself, it does not have the blatant problem with
> nested classes.  The sad part is that I was release manager for 1.15
> back in September, but was not compiling Classpath at the time, or that
> regression might not have slipped through!
> 
> :pserver:address@hidden:/usr/cvs/jikes (password anoncvs,
> module jikes)
> 
> I feel your pain (sorry that I'm partly to blame).
> 
> >
> > Brian
> 
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
  BYU student, free software programmer