From 6054f21ba2745cbe8e1b05560f1cd6b9a1c9aee0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Pfaff 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. Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. -- 2.30.2