Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 23:19:51 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Don't upgrade your Alphas! Message-ID: <20030317231951.A36267@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030317221231.GA8626@HAL9000.homeunix.com>; from das@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0800 References: <20030317161219.GA1429@sunbay.com> <20030317221231.GA8626@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 02:12:31PM -0800, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>: > > Hold off upgrading your Alphas for a moment. > > Something broke libc recently that results in > > (at least) floating point exceptions from > > awk(1) (this is not related to today's awk > > upgrade). > > > > I've been able to reproduce this on beast.freebsd.org > > by building the fresh libc.a and linking awk with > > it, and running a test case. > > > > I haven't been able to reproduce this with 8th > > March libc, so the time window for the breakage > > is low. > > > > I suspect the recent gtdoa commit to libc; we > > will know that is less than an hour. > > Whups. You're probably using a locale in which the decimal point > is not a period. In that case, please use the patches I just > posted to the following thread, which I just CC'd you. Ruslan has been using my Alphas to test this and there is no locale set on those. > If it really is an Alpha issue and not a locale issue, awk is > probably dying on one of the scripts used by the kernel build. > If you could send me the command line that causes awk to die, > that would be helpful. I'm running a kernel build on beast > right now to see if I can reproduce a problem. I have a meeting > in a few minutes, but I'll be back in five hours or so to follow > up on this. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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