Status update

Document's Title: LSB-si/LSB-appbat Status

Sample Implementation and Application Battery Status

  Week of May 19, 2003

       1. Regular conference calls were held May 20 and May 22.

            Note: ostensibly, the Tuesday call is for the Sample
            Implementation and the Thursday call for the Application
            Battery. In practice, if the "regular suspects" are the only
            ones in attendance, both calls tend to cover both topics as 
            well as lsbdev topics, since all three seem to tie together.

       2. Both meetings the week of May 26 are cancelled

       3. A round of header file changes triggered by s390 needs left
the
          appbat unable to build. The problems were in the interaction
of
          signal.h and ucontext.h - signal.h includes ucontext.h which
uses
          elements defined in signal.h .... this was still being sorted
at
          the time of this writing.

       4. Mats and Marvin ran the latest devchk and libchk on non-ia32
          platforms, which led to some changes in the database: symbol
          versions, structure sizes and elements, etc. These are "almost
          there".

       5. Since the next deliverable is to spin new appbat packages
which are
          "reproducible", the lsbdev packages need to be released. The
above
          changes have an effect on the stub libraries and headers, and
are
          part of the beta testing process (1.3.1 lsbdev packages are in
the
          beta tree, with these changes a new beta spin is needed).

       6. lsbdev-c++ also needs to be moved towards released status.
          Currently it is in "snapshot" state for a few platforms, needs
to
          move to beta at least for ia32, ia64 and ppc32.

       7. The lsbsi for ppc32 received some additional testing and
analysis.
          It appears that some problems detected earlier were due to
faulty
          setup. A set of failures in exec cases was traced to a semop
issue,
          a patch is to be supplied by IBM and a rebuild and retest
should
          take place next week. The ppc kernel also lacks support for
the
          *context routines, this has been a GPL-assignment issue,
supposedly
          now approved. There are a small number of additional problems
still
          being tracked.

       8. A call went out to determine the correct base glibc symbol
versions
          for new platforms. Several of these don't have a full symbol
          version set yet. However, defer working too much on this so it
          doesn't block releasing lsbdev and appbat for the three
          certification platforms, after the experience noted above
(s390
          changes broke other builds).

       9. The lsbsi for s390 is blocked on a bootstrap-phase gcc build
          problem. Eliuth was unvailable for much of the week.

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    The following are the 45 known internationalization failures in the
    LSB-si running the 1.3.x test suites. They haven't ended up
documented
    anywhere yet to date. They show non compliance in the upstream
packages
    diffutils (1), grep (3), gettext (1) and textutils (40). There are
    patches for all of these on the li18nux website, although not always
for
    the same version the lsbsi is using.

    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/diff/diff 2 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/egrep-tp/egrep-tp 5 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/fgrep/fgrep 5 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/fold/fold 1 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/fold/fold 2 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/fold/fold 3 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/grep-tp/grep-tp 5 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/join/join 3 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/join/join 4 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/msgfmt/msgfmt 9 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/pr/pr 1 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/pr/pr 3 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/pr/pr 4 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/pr/pr 5 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/pr/pr 6 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 8 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 9 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 10 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 11 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 12 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 13 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 14 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 15 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 16 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 24 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 25 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 26 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 27 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 28 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 29 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 30 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 31 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 32 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 40 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 41 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 42 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 43 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 44 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 45 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 46 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 47 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/sort/sort 48 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/unexpand/unexpand 1 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/uniq/uniq 2 FAIL
    /tset/LI18NUX2K.L1/utils/uniq/uniq 3 FAIL



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