Dear all,

after the 6.3.0 release, we already had a few problem reports
on configurations we could not test.

Therefore, we worked this week to reactivate our build test suite, and we are
proud to report that it is running again now. Build test results
(http://www.dealii.org/~archiver/cgi-bin/build.pl) are linked from the deal.II
homepage.

The great thing about the build tests: everybody can participate. Therefore, if
you have a configuration you do not see listed there, we would like to encourage
you to submit build test results on a regular basis. This is in particular true,
if you have a Mac or Windows (cygwin) system. It would be extremely helpful if
we could get some volunteers, who do this on a regular basis.

Running the build tests is easy and is described here:

http://www.dealii.org/developer/development/testsuite.html

It is just like this: go to a directory with a checked-out svn version of
deal.II. In order to have a clean and up-to-date installation, run

make distclean
svn update

Then, you run the build test by using

make build-test BUILDTESTFLAGS='<config-flags>'

where <config-flags> contains all the arguments you would use in your call to
configure, for instance any of those

make build-test
make build-test BUILDTESTFLAGS='--with-umfpack --with-lapack'
make build-test BUILDTESTFLAGS='--disable-threads --disable-shared'

This will run the build test and leave the result in the local file
build-test-log, which you send by email to [email protected].

Again, if you have some computing time to spare, for instance at night, your
help in this matter can contribute considerably to the improvement of deal.II.

Best,
Wolfgang & Guido
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