Re: rcs-5.8-1 on HP-UX 11.31

() Paul Ackersviller <[email protected]>
() Mon, 2 Jul 2012 17:19:12 +0000

   Alright, I took the 5.8.1 tag and got all the same results -- everything
   compiles and the tests all pass.

Cool.

   Looks to me like HP is being a little extra helpful in giving warnings even
   for code that can be compile-time optimized out.  Would the non-initialization
   only run on MS-DOS, or does that include modern Windows too?

I don't know.  It all depends on what the configure script is able to discern,
which i am at a loss to characterize for either of those systems, not having
access to them.

   >    One other thing, in case you care, I also ran the tests with memory
   >    leak checking.  Following is the report for whatever it's worth.
   >
   >    [3 warnings]
   > 
   > Hmm, could it be possible that the obstacks RCS uses is confusing
   > the memory leak checking program?  (What would that be, btw?)

   I think it's called real-time-checking, but isn't a separate product
   that I'm aware of, just bundled with HP's compiler.

OK.  I'll keep that in mind.  A while back i remember Paul Eggert found (via
valgrind) some latent bugs, which i had initially dismissed due to ignorance
of valgrind.  This situation is similar and i want to avoid making that
mistake again, so could you please point me to some information on this
program as well as how it was run?

   One additional question I just remembered -- is it normal now to require
   GNU make?  Most autoconf-generated builds traditionally suppored sysv
   make as well.  Is this changing now?

I don't think RCS requires GNU make, actually.  Am i missing something?