freebsd stable - Oct 2006 - some issues not listed on TODO

Hello!

Looking at the http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html today, I was 
surprised to not see the following problems in addition to the em(4) issue:

	. devel/nspr's self test fails: the forktest executable complains
	  about a bug in pthread. Using libthr seems to work, but that is
	  not the default configuration. To reproduce:

		cd /usr/ports/devel/nspr
		make build test

	. when the devel/icu port is built with threading support (currently
	  off for this reason), its self-tests crash randomly on ia64. marcel
	  is aware of the problem with threads on ia64 *in general* and is
	  working on it... To reproduce (on ia64):

		cd /usr/ports/devel/icu
		make config ;# Enable threads
		make

	. building devel/icu on i386 with an optimization flags lower than
	  -O2, reveals a bug in the compiler toolchain -- a bogus symbol is
	  inserted into an object file. The problem strikes sometimes and
	  appears to depend on the number of string literals in the source
	  file. To reproduce, edit the port's Makefile to change the -O flag
	  modification from -O2 to "-O0 -g" and try to build the port.

Yours,

	-mi

If memory serves me right, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> Looking at the http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/todo.html today, I was 
> surprised to not see the following problems in addition to the em(4) issue:
[snip]

Just because a particular issue isn't mentioned on this page doesn't
mean that RE isn't interested in it.  I'm only listing in the
"major
issues" section those things that are currently holding up progress on a
release.  In this case, we've got 6.2-BETA3 holding on some kind of
resolution for the em(4) problems because they have the ability to
affect a *lot* of users.

Thanks,

Bruce.

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