llvm dev - Sep 2010 - [LLVMdev] Announcing: LLVM 2.8 Release Candidate 2 Tagging Tonight

On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Albert Graef wrote:
> Bill Wendling wrote:
>> Release testing of Release Candidate 1 is finished. I'll be tagging
>> Release Candidate 2 tonight. If there are any fixes you want in, please
>> get them approved as soon as possible.
> 
> Are there any tarballs for the release candidates available? Tanya used
> to make these available for previous releases, but I haven't been able
> to find any for testing 2.8.
> 
I created tags instead of tarballs. You can use the
llvm/utils/release/test-release.sh script to download and build the releases.

-bw

Hi Bill,
> I created tags instead of tarballs. You can use the
llvm/utils/release/test-release.sh script to download and build the releases.
I think it is important to provide binaries for the release candidates and have
people test them.  This catches problems such as the binary being linked with
libffi because the person who did the build has libffi installed, making the
binaries unusable for many users (most of whom do not have libffi installed).
This particular example actually happened during a past release.

Ciao,

Duncan.

On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:50:24 -0700
Bill Wendling <wendling at apple.com> wrote:
> On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Albert Graef wrote:
> 
> > Bill Wendling wrote:
> >> Release testing of Release Candidate 1 is finished. I'll be
tagging
> >> Release Candidate 2 tonight. If there are any fixes you want in,
> >> please get them approved as soon as possible.
> > 
> > Are there any tarballs for the release candidates available? Tanya
> > used to make these available for previous releases, but I haven't
> > been able to find any for testing 2.8.
> > 
> I created tags instead of tarballs. You can use the
> llvm/utils/release/test-release.sh script to download and build the
> releases.
Was there an announcement about the rc1 tag that I missed?

Best regards,
--Edwin

On Sep 15, 2010, at 3:34 AM, Török Edwin wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:50:24 -0700
> Bill Wendling <wendling at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sep 15, 2010, at 12:46 AM, Albert Graef wrote:
>> 
>>> Bill Wendling wrote:
>>>> Release testing of Release Candidate 1 is finished. I'll be
tagging
>>>> Release Candidate 2 tonight. If there are any fixes you want
in,
>>>> please get them approved as soon as possible.
>>> 
>>> Are there any tarballs for the release candidates available? Tanya
>>> used to make these available for previous releases, but I
haven't
>>> been able to find any for testing 2.8.
>>> 
>> I created tags instead of tarballs. You can use the
>> llvm/utils/release/test-release.sh script to download and build the
>> releases.
> 
> Was there an announcement about the rc1 tag that I missed?
> 
Yup!

http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2010-September/034411.html

-bw