0.8.0rc1 status

Linux builds of 0.8.0rc1 are in good shape; easily gitian-reproduceable.

Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally figured out why: we are not passing the -frandom-seed flag down into the leveldb build (I used objdump to dump two different binaries, and they differed only in the names of some leveldb objects). That should be an easy makefile fix.

The OSX build is in pretty good shape, but needs https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2286 to compile.

So: I think the path forward is to announce 0.8.0rc1 with the binaries we've got, to get more testing.

Then before final release (or rc2, if that is needed) pull #2286 and create and pull a patch to fix the windows non-determinism problem.

I'm done for today, but should have time to sign the windows setup.exe and send out a rc1 announcement tomorrow.

On Friday, February 08, 2013 11:49:09 PM Gavin Andresen wrote:

> Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally
> figured out why: we are not passing the -frandom-seed flag down into
> the leveldb build (I used objdump to dump two different binaries, and
> they differed only in the names of some leveldb objects). That should
> be an easy makefile fix.

FWIW, this should be already mostly-fixed in pull #2243 I submitted 9 days ago... only thing not in that pull is changing gitian to use the standard CXXFLAGS rather than our non-standard DEBUGFLAGS (whether DEBUGFLAGS should be propagated to LevelDB or not is another conversation I guess).

Luke

> Linux builds of 0.8.0rc1 are in good shape; easily gitian-reproduceable.
> Windows builds are varying with every compile, and I think I finally
> The OSX build is in pretty good shape, but needs
> So: I think the path forward is to announce 0.8.0rc1 with the binaries
> we've got, to get more testing.

With this new minor bump, I'd like to encourage the project to perform a build check on FreeBSD 8.3 (gcc), and 9.1 (should be clang/llvm). I'll try to get to 8.x but may not be able to in time.

On 9 Feb 2013 00:50, "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandresen@gmail•com> wrote:

> Then before final release (or rc2, if that is needed) pull #2286 and
> create and pull a patch to fix the windows non-determinism problem.

#2243 should fix that, I think.

I have done test builds on FreeBSD.

Clean builds using gcc and clang, building both the qt gui and the command line daemon, and the tests run clean as well. The qt gui runs, and cleanly reindexed and caught up. I have no problems to report.

I am not doing any adjustments apart from applying the needed changes to the include directory statements.

On 9 February 2013 16:10, Pieter Wuille <pieter.wuille@gmail•com> wrote:

>
> On 9 Feb 2013 00:50, "Gavin Andresen" <gavinandresen@gmail•com> wrote:
> > Then before final release (or rc2, if that is needed) pull #2286 and
> > create and pull a patch to fix the windows non-determinism problem.
>
> #2243 should fix that, I think.
>
> --
> Pieter
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