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John A Turner writes:

> Are there any major holes in the platforms on which 19.15 betas have
> been tested?  

Two that I can recall off the top of my head.  There's a persistent
problem with subprocesses on Digital Unix that someone offered a
bounty for fixing a few months ago.  So far as I am aware this was
never addressed.  The second was one reported on Irix 5.3

Jered Floyed wrote:
>   With the imminent 20.0 release I'm bringing this up again, since I
> still haven't found a solution.  I've found it completely impossible
> to build a working XEmacs for Irix 5.3 in our environment.  Everything
> builds fine, and works fine when not using X, but when a user runs
> XEmacs on an X display it fails an assertion, and often kernel panics
> the machine. (The kernel panic is certainly not XEmacs' fault, however
> the assertion faiure is.)  Can anyone more familiar with the XEmacs
> internals please help me figure out what the failure means?

> The failure occurs before any frames are mapped:
> Fatal error: assertion failed, file
> /var/tmp/xemacs/xemacs-20.0-b90/src/EmacsFrame.c, line 363,
> RECORD_TYPEP (frame, lrecord_frame) || MARKED_RECORD_P (frame)

As far as I am aware, this problem has never been fixed.

> I ask because I don't think I've seen many build reports other than
> Sun (both SunOS and Solaris) and Linux.  Some DEC builds, I think, but
> I don't think I've seen regular IBM/AIX, SGI/IRIX, etc. reports.

BSD looks solid and has its share of regulars.  AIX and Irix also have
regular reports, at least I have several on each platform this week.

Coverage on DEC has been light of late due to Steve Carney being on
vacation.

> Hopefully folks are just sending the reports to Steve directly or I've
> just missed them.

Nope.  Nag, nag, nag.  If you don't wish to send them to the list,
*please* send them to me directly.  The build reports are valuable
feedback and I read every one.

Future 20.1 betas starting with beta9 will include a neatly packaged
`Installation' file generated by configure.  Then I suppose we need a
gnus-xmas-send-build-report and a vm-xemacs-send-build-report bound to 
a convenient key.

> Anyway, I'm not made of time, but I do have access to a number of
> platforms here, and since we're getting close to 19.15 release, I just
> wanted to make sure as many platforms as possible are being tested.

Thanks.  Test whatever you can, every little bit helps.
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