Re: [boost] [1.40.0] Freeze for release candidate

Subject: Re: [boost] [1.40.0] Freeze for release candidate
From: Jeremiah Willcock (jewillco_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-08-25 13:16:09

On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Eric Niebler wrote:

> Matthias Troyer wrote:
>> On Aug 25, 2009, at 3:15 PM, Eric Niebler wrote:
>>> We have some MPI test results now. Matthias should have a look and report 
>>> on the failures there. Then we can decide whether there are any 
>>> showstoppers.
>>> 
>>> Marshal, can you make sure Matthias has access to your test results?
>> 
>> I saw some test results, and they are the failures I also sometimes see: 
>> the skeleton&contents tests sometimes fail, and sometimes work. This is the 
>> same as in the past and Doug Gregor had explained it as a problem of the 
>> underlying MPI implementation. Looking deeper into it would require more 
>> time than is available. These are not regressions but issues that have been 
>> around for a while.
>
> Thanks, Matthias. This is good enough for me to feel comfortable moving ahead 
> with the 1.40 release. Beman, Jeremiah, any objections?

I am able to reproduce the skeleton&content errors fairly consistently 
now, but I don't understand the mechanism enough to debug it.  If you use 
"-mca btl tcp,self" on the mpirun command line (running the test by hand), 
the memory errors turn into test failures, at least for me.  I think I 
need Matthias to help with debugging the problems.

-- Jeremiah Willcock