From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jun 2 0:17:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from digger1.defence.gov.au (digger1.defence.gov.au [203.5.217.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 856CE37B88D for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 00:17:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au) Received: from dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.150]) by digger1.defence.gov.au (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e527HO616890 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:47:24 +0930 (CST) Received: from muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (unverified) by dsto-ms2.dsto.defence.gov.au (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.1.5) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:48:04 +0930 Received: from fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (fang.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.2.5]) by muttley.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id QAA12815; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:42:30 +0930 (CST) Received: from fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au (fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au [131.185.75.229]) by fang.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3/8.9.3.LMD.990513) with ESMTP id QAA32691; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:42:29 +0930 (CST) Received: from dsto.defence.gov.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fuzz.dsto.defence.gov.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01001; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 16:42:29 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au) Message-ID: <39375E5D.A967720F@dsto.defence.gov.au> Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 16:42:29 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Cc: Matthew Thyer Subject: Oddities with the new binutils Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Three issues: - floating point math doesn't seem to work properly: To reproduce: Build xaos from ports (/usr/ports/graphics/xaos) Run xaos and press 'a' - enjoy the show but I dont think its what the author intended. I have reproduced this on two machines which are running -CURRENT as of around May 29th - 30th with the new binutils. Both machines were upgraded by: - make world - making and installing a new kernel - mergemaster - reboot - deletion of ALL installed ports - recompile of every essential port (inc XFree 3.3.6) One machine has its source populated by cvsup from cvsup4, the other by cvsup from my own cvsup server whos repository is populated by ctm-cvs-cur delta so I dont think there are any problems with my source tree. - backward compatibility: Before I deleted all ported software on my home machine (cvsup's from cvsup4) I ran wdm and Window maker and saw lots of problems with font rendering into wrong locations, menus not being displayed properly and icons being placed in incorrect locations (not actually icons but the launching thingies!). I'm not complaining but rather reporting so that people can bump appropriate FreeBSD version numbers..., update UPDATING etc if required or if there are not meant to be any issues then work out why there are. - stability: Windowmaker at home dumps core whenever I log out (it never used to do this before the new binutils with the exact same version of Windowmaker). I haven't noticed other stability problems yet. These issues make me think that the new binutils is not yet ready for -STABLE. -- Matthew Thyer Phone: +61 8 8259 7249 Corporate Information Systems Fax: +61 8 8259 5537 Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Salisbury PO Box 1500 Salisbury South Australia 5108 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message