On Jan 3, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2010-01-03 15:27-0700 Jerry wrote:
>
>> Hi Emile,
>> I'm glad the SVN checkout worked for you. I compared the Ada  
>> sources for the
>> 5.9.5 release and the current SVN and the only differences relate  
>> to a
>> problem that I fixed with the stripchart plot and adding a user- 
>> specified
>> labeling routine, meaning that none of the differences appear to  
>> have been
>> able to cause the problem. At this point, I'll just have to say "I  
>> don't
>> know" and wait to see if anyone else has this problem.
>
> Hi Jerry and Emile:
>
> What versions of Ada and CMake are you using for your tests?  Also,  
> please
> indicate if your platform is 64 bit or 32 bit.

cmake version 2.6-patch 2
The GNAT compiler is 32-bit, but the machine is 64-bit (Intel Core 2  
Duo)
>
> I run ctest (to be replaced by "make test_noninteractive" for future
> releases) as part of my release testing.  Therefore, I am virtually  
> positive
> 5.9.5 tested fine for me with the Debian Lenny version of Ada  
> (gnat-4.3,
> version 4.3.2-1.1) and CMake-2.6.4 on my 64-bit platform. I am in  
> the middle
> of something else at the moment, but I will try to double-check that  
> again
> within the next few days.

It seems devilishly complicated right now to discover what version of  
GNAT I'm using. I would have sworn it was 4.3 but there is a  
possibility that it is some version of 4.4.
>
> It would be good to find the source of this 5.9.5 issue with Ada if  
> at all
> possible so that we don't have this problem coming back to haunt us  
> again.
> It's possible, for example, that Jerry's post-5.9.5 changes to Ada
> inadvertently fixed up some 32-bit issue or version-dependent issue  
> with Ada
> or CMake. Therefore, Jerry might inadvertently regenerate the  
> problem again
> (for certain Ada or CMake versions) with some future change unless  
> we figure
> this out.
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>
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> Astronomy,
> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
>
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> implementation
> for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting  
> software
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> Loads of
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> (lbproject.sf.net).
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