Re: 1.7.18 up for testing/signing

On 13 August 2014 14:16, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ivan Zhakov [mailto:ivan_at_visualsvn.com]
>> Sent: maandag 11 augustus 2014 13:06
>> To: Bert Huijben
>> Cc: Ben Reser; Subversion Development
>> Subject: Re: 1.7.18 up for testing/signing
>>
>> On 11 August 2014 14:54, Bert Huijben <bert_at_qqmail.nl> wrote:
>> >> -----Original Message-----
>> >> From: Bert Huijben [mailto:bert_at_qqmail.nl]
>> >> Sent: zondag 10 augustus 2014 17:40
>> >> To: 'Ben Reser'; 'Subversion Development'
>> >> Subject: RE: 1.7.18 up for testing/signing
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > From: Bert Huijben [mailto:bert_at_qqmail.nl]
>> >> > Sent: donderdag 7 augustus 2014 19:40
>> >> > To: 'Ben Reser'; 'Subversion Development'
>> >> > Subject: RE: 1.7.18 up for testing/signing
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > > -----Original Message-----
>> >> > > From: Ben Reser [mailto:ben_at_reser.org]
>> >> > > Sent: donderdag 7 augustus 2014 17:07
>> >> > > To: Subversion Development
>> >> > > Subject: Re: 1.7.18 up for testing/signing
>> >> > >
>> >> > > On 8/1/14 6:32 PM, Ben Reser wrote:
>> >> > > > The 1.7.18 release artifacts are now available for testing/signing.
>> >> > > > Please get the tarballs from
>> >> > > > https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/subversion
>> >> > > > and add your signatures there. I plan to try and release on August
>> 11th
>> >> so
>> >> > > > please try and get your votes/signatures in place by August 9th.
>> >> > > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Voting stands at 2 for Unix and 0 for Windows.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Ivan said on IRC he's working on vote for this for Windows.
>> >> > >
>> >> > > Could use a couple more people on Windows and 1 more on Unix.
>> Any
>> >> > > takers on this?
>> >> >
>> >> > I've completed the complete 3x2 testrun for 1.8.10 (already added my
>> >> > signatures), but I hit some local problem building 1.7.18. And I'm first
>> trying
>> >> to
>> >> > get the Windows buildbots back up after a harddisk failure.
>> >>
>> >> I switched to a different compiler chain for 1.7. (Using VS 2010 instead of
>> 2008
>> >> I tried to use before). I can't see why there would be a compilation
>> >> regression for 1.7, so I'm assuming it is a local problem.
>> >
>> > No, it is not a local problem. But one that I already fixed before, see
>> nomination
>> > [[
>> > * r1595431
>> > Use a proper intermediate directory when building with VS 2003-2008.
>> > Justification:
>> > Reported as a build problem by some of our usual dist signers.
>> > Votes:
>> > +1: rhuijben
>> > ]]
>> >
>> > Too bad nobody voted on this patch for this release.
>> >
>> > 1.7.x's STATUS could use some love, before we call it unsupported with
>> 1.9.x...
>> >
>> > Bert
>> >
>> I don't have problems building 1.7.x with Visual Studio 2008 btw.
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> The problem is that some intermediate files of several build targets (luckily only on tests) share the same path.
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> This may or may not cause problems during building and/or runtime. But
> once you start building in parallel the chance that you hit a problem increases.
> As I run msbuild the same way as Visual Studio via a wrapper script the number
> of cores used to build 1.7 increased for me since the original release of 1.7.
>
I always disable parallel builds -- I don't believe that parallel
build could work properly :)

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Ivan Zhakov