I think that most major outstanding-but-fixable bugs in the rel_2_4_3rc1 branch of cvs (a.k.a. release candidate 1 for PDL-2.4.3). However, we have not seen tests for the following platforms:
MacOS 10.5 and 10.6: also, is the TriD build still broken if you force it to happen in perldl.conf? AMD64 hardware: does the 64bit library get found? IRIX: does it build? AIX: does it build? I'll hold for the rest of this week pending further testing as well as specific corrections and additions to the list of known problems (included below for your reference and immediate feedback if desired :-). If no further testers respond with issues then I'll move to a final release candidate next Monday, verification testing for a few days and a sf/cpan release by the end of next week. Thanks all, Chris Draft 2 of Known_problems: ===================== The following issues have been reported with this version of PDL: - FFTW 3.0.1 is now out but is not supported (yet). You can use 2.x versions of FFTW, fall back on the built-in fft routines, or (best of all) submit a patch. - Overly verbose but not particularly helpful text output from configure, built, test process. This is especially confusing for beginning users. - Compiler warnings from external code interfaces for several modules including for the following files: PLplot.xs, GD.xs, GD.c, INTERP.xs, RNG.xs, and RNG.c. ? Modern versions of MakeMaker (e.g. 6.22) fail to compile PDL, apparently ? because of the removal of the magic pm_to_blib target. Current ? versions (such as 6.17, bundled with the current perl, v5.8.6) work OK. ? With PDL 2.4.2, we have followed the core perl team in our use of ? earlier MakeMaker versions. ? If @INC has '.' at the front of the search path part of the build will ? fail (specifically mkpdlconv will not be able to 'use English' since ? it uses Exporter.pm from Basic/Core and not the system Exporter.pm). ? [added by Tim Jenness on 15 Apr 2000] ? [This appears to be fixed but this note is left FYI for the 2.4.2 release -- CED 16-Dec-2004 ] ? PDL::Graphics::TriD doesn't seem to link correctly on the Mac, under ? MacOS 10.5 & 10.6. It has not been fixed in part because TriD needs an ? overhaul anyway, and in part because the code is cryptic. If you'd like ? to fix it, please do! Patches welcome. (PDL::Graphics::TriD is disabled ? by default on Mac installs, thanks, Doug) ? The t/fits.t test and PDL::IO::FITS module can show problems when ? used with old versions of the Astro::FITS::Header module. If you have ? problems then please install the latest version from ? ? http://search.cpan.org/~aallan/Astro-FITS-Header/ ? ? (it is v2.8.1 at the time of writing) and see if this stops the problems. ? Note that Astro::FITS::Header has a somewhat esoteric numbering scheme ? (all the individual components have their own version number) which can ? make it hard to work out what version of the package have installed. ? SourceForge bugs as follows: ? ? 1530666 bugs in Transform.pm ? 1505171 failure in MatrixOps::eigens in CVS ? 1476324 How to force a completely clean installation ? 1465864 limits_round.t test failure ? 1465603 flexraw fails on Intel OS X with gfortran ? 1465414 Need lib64 version in various lib search paths for AMD64 ? 1435189 Installation with cpan2rpm ? 1339530 pdlcore.c fails to build on IRIX and AIX ? 1205359 PGPLOT Window does not store full state info For more information on these and other PDL issues, and for submissions of patches (bug patches are always welcome!), see the PDL mailing lists at http://pdl.perl.org/support.html
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