Re: [flint-devel] newlines in makefile

[Michael A. <mab...@go...>]

On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Bill Hart <goo...@go...> wrote:

Hi Bill,

> I'll reply to both posts at once.

Ok.

> The test failures will be cases hit because of different random seeds
> on those 32 machines. They should be trivial to fix. There is an
> outside chance I can do it tonight, but if I have access to the
> machines involved, this will be easier.

The linux box is cicero on SkyNet, but I am currently valgrind there,
so I am keeping that box busy. The other one is varro also on SkyNet,
but I don't think your account works there, so you should ping Mariah.

> Upgrading to 1.1 should not be painful, unless you want to incorporate
> lots of the new functionality (which I hope you will :-)). In that
> case there's the wrapper to write. But otherwise things should be
> quite stable. I've done very long runs with most of the new functions,
> and no problems. I don't think SAGE uses any of the functionality
> where the interface has changed.

Ok.

> I've only just noticed that these failures are being reported for
> FLINT 1.0.20. That's odd, because only bug fixes have gone into that
> branch for some time now, so presumably these bugs have been there for
> a while, and have been triggered due to different random seeds after
> rebuilding.

Yes, I just turned tests on since I figured it cannot hurt and I was
just as surprised that on both 32 bit test boxen things didn't work
too well.

> If the bugs are in 1.0.20 they are also likely in 1.1, just not
> triggered because of different random seeds.

Good to know. Once I am done with 1.0.20 I will test 1.1 on the same box.

> Bill.

Cheers,

Michael