Re: 4.2pre-whatever builds OK on VMS

[Ethan M. <merritt@u.washington.edu>]

On Friday 07 July 2006 01:08 am, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> Ethan A Merritt wrote:
> > 2) The column-stacked histogram demo has some missing boxes.
> > I vaguely recall encountering that once before, but I can't
> > remember what it turned out to be.  Maybe some browsing through
> > ChangeLog.
>
> This one is not VMS related.  I see the missing boxes in both X11 and
> PostScript.  I don't recall seeing this except only recently.

Sigh.

So it's something that broke very recently.
That's the danger of this mad dash to close out all bug reports
before a release.  The fixes can have unintended side effects
that are worse than the original problem.

I wonder if it's somehow related to NaN / DF_MISSING...

-- 
Ethan A Merritt
Biomolecular Structure Center
University of Washington, Seattle WA