From 6054f21ba2745cbe8e1b05560f1cd6b9a1c9aee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Pfaff <blp@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2005 02:36:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add Solaris, Mac OS X notes.
---
INSTALL | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 3b08916b..269bb232 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+Release Notes
+=============
+
PSPP has the following library dependencies;
* The GNU Scientific Library (libgsl), version 1.6 or later.
@@ -13,7 +16,19 @@ PSPP also has the following build dependencies:
* perl 5.6 or later.
- * GNU diff, for `make check' to complete properly.
+ * GNU diff, for `make check' to complete properly. (We intend to
+ eliminate this dependency in a later release.)
+
+A few system-specific issues have been noted. These may be PSPP bugs
+or system bugs; we have not yet been able to track them down precisely:
+
+ * On Solaris, one or more tests may fail `make check'. We have
+ only seen this reported on Solaris 9 with GCC 3.4.2. Our
+ reporter says that turning off optimization (with -O0) at least
+ masked the symptoms.
+
+ * On Mac OS X, GCC 4.0.0 build 4061 has been observed to cause
+ some tests to fail. Later builds should work fine.
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