call for testers (Re: ISC BIND 9.7.0b1 is now available)

[Dave Knight]

On 2009-10-21, at 6:50 PM, JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉 wrote:

> Dear beta testers,
>
> At Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:29:20 +0000,
> Evan Hunt <each at isc.org> wrote:
>
>> 	             BIND 9.7.0b1 is now available.
>
> [snip]
>
>> 	- On some platforms, named and other binaries can now print out
>> 	  a stack backtrace an assertion failure, to aid in debugging.
>
> I'd like to know platforms for which this feature does NOT work, so
> that we can fix the problem (preferably) or disable this feature at
> ./configure time for such platforms.
>
> To see if it works for your platform, please perform the following
> steps:
>
> 1. build 9.7.0b1
> 2. go to the "bind-9.7.0b1/bin/tests" directory
> 3. % make backtrace_test
> 4. % ./backtrace_test
>
> On success, "backtrace_test" simply exits without any output (I know
> it's not a good UI); if something goes wrong it will dump some warning
> messages to stderr and exit with a non-0 exit code.


> If the test fails
> on your platform, please report it to bind9-bugs at isc.org, including
> the OS, its version, and hardware architecture (x86, amd64, sparc,
> etc).

Possibly also useful to report success here so that many people aren't  
needlessly repeating the same test.

It passed for me on:

x86_64 / Mac OS X 10.6.1 / Darwin dhcp4.sanxion.org 10.0.0 Darwin  
Kernel Version 10.0.0: Fri Jul 31 22:47:34 PDT 2009;  
root:xnu-1456.1.25~1/RELEASE_I386 i386

x86 / Ubuntu 9.04 / Linux sb 2.6.28-11-server #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr  
17 02:48:10 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux





> There are several known defects:
> - this feature doesn't work if it's built with libtool
> - this doesn't work for Windows (probably obvious)
> these cases don't have to be tested.
>
> Thanks,
>
> ---
> JINMEI, Tatuya
> Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.
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