Re: GNU PSPP 0.6.2 pre-release now available

[Jason Stover]

Without the gui, all tests passed on OpenBSD with x86,
except this one:

libplot: ignoring request to create plotter of unknown type
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proximate cause:     Segmentation Violation
version:             GNU pspp 0.6.1-20090702  (Fri Jul  3 08:36:13 EDT 2009).
host_system:         i386-unknown-openbsd4.5
build_system:        i386-unknown-openbsd4.5
default_config_path: $HOME/.pspp:/usr/local/etc/pspp
include_path:        ./:$HOME/.pspp/include:/usr/local/share/pspp
locale_dir:          /usr/local/share/locale
compiler version:    3.3.5 (propolice)
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run program 1
FAILED
FAIL: tests/bugs/piechart.sh

...but I think that's because I have an old copy of libplot.


On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 10:18:50AM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> A pre-release of PSPP 0.6.2 is now available at:
>         http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/pspp/pspp-0.6.1-20090702.tar.gz
> 
> This will become 0.6.2 if I don't hear reports of new problems or
> regressions within the next week or so.
> 
> Changes from 0.6.1 to 0.6.1-20090702:
> 
>   * Statistical bug fixes:
> 
>     - Report correct standard error of the estimate in REGRESSION
>       output (bug #25677).
> 
>   * Build fixes and changes:
> 
>     - Make running "make" after running "configure" with different
>       settings reliably rebuild version.c.
> 
>     - Cygwin and MinGW build fixes.
> 
>     - Fixes for building with recent gnulib.
> 
>     - The Makefile now honors two new variables, PSPP_LDFLAGS and
>       PSPPIRE_LDFLAGS, that affect linking of the PSPP and PSPPIRE
>       binaries, respectively.  This makes building easier for some
>       packagers.
> 
>     - Fixes for "configure --enable-relocatable" (bug #25508).
> 
>   * Data file bug fixes and changes:
> 
>     - Fix reading text data files that contain a mix of white space
>       and commas.  Now "a ,b" is treated as two fields containing "a"
>       and "b"; previously it was treated as three, with an empty field
>       in the middle.
> 
>     - Fix writing corrupted .sav files on Windows.
> 
>     - Fix writing corrupted .por files (bug #26034).
> 
>     - Fix reading .por files whose initial lines are not padded out
>       with spaces as expected.
> 
>     - PSPP will no longer issue warnings about some .sav file records
>       or values that it does not understand.  These warnings were
>       harmless, but needlessly alarmed some users.
> 
>     - Fix crash reading empty string fields from PostgreSQL databases.
> 
>   * Bug fixes that affect PSPP and PSPPIRE:
> 
>     - Users may now control precision of output statistics.  Instead
>       of hard coding the width and decimals of output numbers, respect
>       the default format in most instances.  Counts are now normally
>       displayed with the format of the weight variable, if any.
> 
>     - Fix crash when an INSERT command specifies the name of a file
>       that does not exist (bug #24569).
> 
>     - Fix crash when CROSSTABS specifies a long-string variable (bug
>       #24557).
> 
>     - Fix crash drawing pie charts with many segments.
> 
>     - Fix crash when NUMERIC specifies an invalid format.
> 
>   * PSPPIRE bug fixes and changes:
> 
>     - On Windows, write the output file to the user's home directory
>       instead of the current directory, to better match user
>       expectations.
> 
>     - Some data editor fixes.
> 
>   * Documentation:
> 
>     - Fix typo in BINOMIAL section of user manual (bug #25892).
> 
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