[M3devel] Getting ready for new users (Re: HEADS UP: Release engineering)

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:

> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>> Quoting Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:
>>
>> >
>> >I tested the LINUXLIBC6 archive and it installed ok, no prompting.
>> >
>> >I ran it with no parameters -- unlike Henrik. It did mention the
>> >current working directory (or its directory, same thing) as the
>> >install source, which confused me. Probably as long as system.tgz
>> >exists where it expects, it shouldn't say anything.
>>
>> Strange.
>>
>> Hendrik, can you reproduce the strange message? And then perhaps
>> provide a system call trace (ktrace, truss, whatever)?
>
> No.  I have not been able to reproduce it.  Tried three times:
>  (1) with the existing preexisting incomplete /usr/local/cm3, and no
> references to any cm3 stuff in $PATH
>  (2) without any /usr/local/cm3 (I used rm -r to erase it), and no
> references to any cm3 stuff ini $PATH
>  (3) witout any /usr/local/cm3, and a reference to bin within the
> unpacked ancient cm3-min archive in my $PATH (which is how is was when I
> first got the message).  (And this is how I've cm3-min to compile and
> run even though its installation failed as reported here long ago)
>
> All these installations were from the same ~hendrik/cm3 directory
> resulting from the archive I had unpacked a while ago when I got the
> strange message.  I haven't downloaded a new archive since then.  Maybe
> I should retry creating a new unpacked archive every time?  Or should I
> just give up?

If it now just works and the problem cannot be reproduced, we should
leave it that way. I wouldn't invest much time on chasing down such
a spurious error now.

Olaf
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