Re: Building with pdump litters /usr/local/bin

Martin> I believe this is also the reason why pdump should _not_ be the Martin> default dumper when 21.2 is released. In my private capacity, I disagree. But the Release Manager has no opinion. Martin> Of course, for platforms where pdump is broken or non-ported, pdump Martin> should happen automatically (it doesn't currently). The Release Manager asks you to fix this. On all platforms, for testing. If you don't, I will. It is unlikely that I will be able to do it in a way that is easy to reverse at release time for appropriate platforms, unfortunately. I am not very configure-able. Martin> Are there such platforms? Sure. Irix with CC='gcc Martin> -mabi=64', for example. APA> Don't forget the potentially most prominent platform Which is why I want testers using the pdumper by default. There probably are very few, and those obscure, general bugs left in the pdumper, but I want to be as sure as possible. Making the Windows platform rock-solid in this respect is worth the slight risk to Unix platforms. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."