Re: GNU poke 3.90.1 testing status

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>> The planned date for releasing 4.0 is Friday 26 January 2024, but this
>> may change ...
>
> Here's my testing status, as of today, considering the fixes that have
> been committed:
>
> * Compilation errors due to jitter:
>   Linux/s390, FreeBSD/powerpc64, FreeBSD/sparc64
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2024-01/msg00067.html
>   and
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2024-01/msg00078.html #1
>
> * Compiles but does not run, due to jitter:
>   NetBSD/x86_64
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2024-01/msg00072.html
>
> * Compiles but does not run, cause unknown:
>   Linux/m68k
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2024-01/msg00066.html
>
> * Compiles fine and passes all tests:
>   Linux/x86_64 (Ubuntu gcc, Ubuntu clang 17, Alpine Linux),
>   Linux/armv5, Linux/mips, Linux/mips64, Linux/powerpc64, Alpine Linux/s390x,
>   OpenBSD/x86_64
>
> * Compiles fine and passes and tests, provided an environment variable
>   GC_DISABLE_INCREMENTAL=1 is set:
>   Linux/powerpc
>   https://github.com/ivmai/bdwgc/issues/614
>
> * Compiles fine, repl tests fail with timeout:
>   - Linux/hppa (needs 40 sec timeout instead of 20 sec),
>   - Linux/alpha (even 40 sec timeout are not enough).
>
> * Compiles fine, tests not run due to missing dejagnu:
>   Linux/sparc32, Linux/sparc64, NetBSD/powerpc, NetBSD/sparc64
>
> And then there's also the endless recursion:
>   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/poke-devel/2024-01/msg00065.html

Thanks for the summary.

Luca mentioned he will be able to look at the jitter problems over the
weekend.  If it happens I will do another pre-release at the end of the
weekend, looking at releasing 4 at mid next week.