Re: RC1?

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, Tom Lane wrote:

> "Nigel J. Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk> writes:
> > FWIW, gmake check and gmake bigcheck pass on:
> > FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Feb 3 23:48:56 GMT 2000
>
> > with the expection of:
> > [snipped]
> > in the float8 test.
>
> Okay, looks like we need to use float8-fp-exception.out on your
> platform. This is a bit surprising since resultmap presently shows
>
> float8/i.86-.*-freebsd=float8-small-is-zero
>
> How shall we distinguish your version of freebsd from the ones that
> need the other comparison file?
>
> regards, tom lane
>

Is it necessary, I mean really necessary to distinguish this system? It's quite
an old installation [that ain't broke so I ain't fixed it] and the difference
is only the error message. I hadn't even looked to see if there was a better
expected output file, just accepted it as a normal, acceptable variation in
the regression tests.

I don't know anything about how the tests are put together so I'd have to look
into that before suggesting a way to differentiate my system. Having said that
wouldn't the 3.3-RELEASE string be sufficient?

--
Nigel J. Andrews