[Coin-osi-devel] Osi/stable testing

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Lou Hafer wrote:

> Matt, Ted, et al.,
>
> 	I've checked out the new Osi/stable for these builds:
>
>  * Solaris 10 (Sun Studio compilers)
>  * Fedora Core 5
>  * Cygwin (32-bit over Win2K)
>  * Mingw (cygwin 32-bit over Win2K with --enable-doscompile=mingw; uses
>  	--mno-cygwin)
>  * Msvc (cygwin 32-bit over Win2K with --enable-doscompile=msvc; uses cl)
>
> There are a few glitches.  For the mingw build, the unit test fails due 
> to inability to read gzip'd files.  Could be due to some library 
> incompatibility in my ancient system.  If it's a problem for others, we

That's libz.  The old Makefiles had a line about whether you wanted to 
include libz or not.  If you did, then gzipped files would be 
uncompressed on read automatically.  If you didn't, you were responsible 
for ungzipping the MPS files.

That could be a feature test in configure--if you have libz, use it; if 
not, either gunzip the MPS files or do nothing.  Offer --no-libz option to 
override if you have it but don't want to use it.

 		Matt


> can tweak BuildTools to unzip the .mps files ahead of time.  The unit 
> test is fine if I do the unzip by hand.  For the msvc build, you'll get 
> a couple of `foo.h is present but cannot be compiled' warnings from 
> configure.  Microsoft and autoconf 2.59 disagree on how to declare 
> exit().  The problem is fairly deep, and is fixed in autoconf 2.61, so 
> it's not really worth our time to put in patches. There are comments and 
> pointers attached to BuildTools ticket #30 (a closed ticket, you'll have 
> to dig to find it).
>
> 	Remaining environments available to me are SuSE and some variations on
> the Solaris build. For others, over to the rest of you ...
>
> 							Lou

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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