Re: [Oorexx-devel] Solaris bugs #1584045 and #1585065

[Mark M. <mie...@ac...>]

Mark Hessling

: Further to the problems with Solaris...

Well, there is more to fixing the bugs than I expected.  I should have
known.
 
: I've built ooRexx 3.1.0 on sparc Solaris 9 on SourceForge.  
: The problem here ...
: 
: Now this value of 25 may be too small for other platforms, so 
: either this value is set to 25 for Solaris 9 only (Solaris 10 
: has fixed these small limits which is why I had no problems 
: (with this) on my x86 Solaris 10 builds) or it is changed to 
: 25 for all platforms, but this will require a successful 
: build on all platforms first. I have no idea of the 
: ramifications of changing these values of MAXSEM and 
: MAXUTILSEM from 48/32 to 25/25.

I think, since the ramifications are unknown, it is not a good idea to try
and do it now.  I didn't mean to open a can of worms.  I would prefer to
release the 3.1.1 now and try to address this in the next release.

 
: This also raises some issues with Solaris.  Building a binary 
: on Solaris 10 is very unlikely to run on Solaris 9 or below. 
: A Solaris 9 binary will probably run on Solaris 10. The ideal 
: situation is to have Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 binaries.

This is ideal, and preferable if it is logistically doable.  I'll start
looking around to see if I can get access to Solaris on a Sparc machine.  If
nothing else I can help do some testing then.
 
: The bottom line with all of this is if we want to be able to 
: provide Solaris 9 binaries for 3.1.1, we will need some 
: further source changes and further testing on other platforms 
: and no 3.1.1 release this week.

I don't think we should hold up the release any further. 

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Mark Miesfeld
mie...@ac...