Re: Please test pending bugfix release of base

[Sebastian Reitenbach]

Hi,


On Thursday, June 16, 2011 09:58 CEST, Richard Frith-Macdonald <rfm@gnu.org> 
wrote: 
 
> It's long enough now since the last release that I'd like to make a bugfix 
> release of the base library (going from 1.22.0 to 1.22.1).
> This release is mostly for portability issues, but there are fixes to atomic 
> operations used for retain/release safety, which would be important to 
> threaded software, so we really should make a release for tis alone.
> The idea is not to add any new features, just to make things even more 
> reliable and portable.
> 
> Please could people (especially those with unusual hardware and/or 
> obscure/old operating systems) give this a try so we can make this release as 
> portable and reliable as possible.

one other thing I have, not a bug, but a bit annoying:
The NSTimeZones/NSTimeZones.tar file contains a .abbreviations.plist.swp, which 
I rm in the ports build post-install: step. 
Would be good if the file could just be removed from the tarball.

Sebastian