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| author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2011-08-28 06:38:36 -0400 |
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| committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2011-08-28 06:38:36 -0400 |
| commit | 35099067d963dbc35b8dd9187b87eaccc42f15be (patch) | |
| tree | 31cae76e544abcef652aa02b61a3ffd9ff788417 /www/upstream-bugs.html | |
| parent | b043f57c8fe35f170195a3f9271e76abcc663db0 (diff) | |
| download | gpsd-35099067d963dbc35b8dd9187b87eaccc42f15be.tar.gz | |
Documentation and buglist option.
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diff --git a/www/upstream-bugs.html b/www/upstream-bugs.html index 2af7e82a..4dc58249 100644 --- a/www/upstream-bugs.html +++ b/www/upstream-bugs.html @@ -77,6 +77,8 @@ maintainer, we've tried to kick these upstream.</p> <li><a href="#libtool">Multiple definitions of symbol _gpsd_report due to libtool bug</a></li> <li><a href="#pyinstall">Defective Python installation in SuSE 10.3rc</a></li> <li><a href="#gcc421">Compiler optimizer bugs can produce error-modeling errors<a></li> +<li><a href="#sconscxx">scons doesn't honor parse_flags in a Program() using C++</li> +<li><a href="#mfence">Illegal-instruction errors near fence operations</li> </ul> <h1>Links to Fixed Bugs</h1> @@ -208,12 +210,23 @@ reported seems to vary randomly with level of optimization.</p> regression-test failures. Dropping back to -O1 or going up to -O3 restores behavior like GCC 4.4.1's.</p> -<h2 id="scons_cpp">scons doesn't honnor parse_flags in a Program() using C++</h2> +<h2 id="scons_cpp">scons doesn't honor parse_flags in a Program() using C++</h2> <p>In building test_gpsmm, we should get libgps_dump_state() from the -client library, but scons has a bug; we can't get it to add -lgps to th, -apparently because it doesn't honor parse_flags on a Program() build of -a C++ .cpp file.</p> +client library, but scons 1.2.0 has a bug; we can't get it to add +-lgps to the link lime, apparently because it doesn't honor +parse_flags on a Program() build of a C++ .cpp file.</p> + +<h2 id="#mfence">Illegal-instruction errors near fence operations</h2> + +<p>The shared-memory export relies on being able to generate some +fence instructions that are processor-specfic. We have a report that +under Ubuntu 10.04 running on a 32-bit Athlon processor the daemon +dies with an illegal instruction error when attempting the fence +operation.</p> + +<p>To work around this, disable the shared-memory export by building +with "scons shm_export=no".</p> <h1>Fixed Problems</h1> |