Pike-devel October 2003

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Pelix
by Martin Nilsson (saturator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

I get the following when I try to build Pike on pelix. How come? Making _Regexp_PCRE Linking _Regexp_PCRE ld: fatal: file pcre_glue.o: open failed: No such file or directory Linking failed: /export/spare/pike/home/manual/Pike/7.5/bin/smartlink /usr/ccs/bin/ld -G -o module.so pcre_glue.o -R/pike/sw//lib -L/pike/sw//lib -ldl -lrt -lnsl -lsocket -lm -lpthread -lthread /pike/sw/pkg/gcc-3.3.1/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3.1/libgcc.a -lc /pike/sw/pkg/gcc-3.3.1/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3.1/libgcc.a

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Massif
by Martin Nilsson (saturator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

I just ran the valgrind massif skin and ended up with the following graph of memory usage per time during hilfe startup and exit. I don't really know what to do with it, but graphs are always impressive. http://213.112.12.4/pics/hilfe.pdf

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Calendar.Event fix
by Bertrand LUPART 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

While trying what shown about Calendar.Event during the pike conference, i noticed that french events was broken: > indices(Calendar.Events["fr"]); Events: Adding undefined event " Add \"c/all saint\" h # \"All Saint's Day\" Fixed Nov 1" /sw/lib/pike/pike7.2/modules/Calendar.pmod/Events.pmod:304: find_region("fr") /sw/lib/pike/pike7.2/modules/Calendar.pmod/Events.pmod:373: magic_event("fr") /sw/lib/pike/pike7.2/modules/Calendar.pmod/Events.pmod:358: `[]("fr") -:1: ___Foo4711() Replacing "c/all saint" by "c/all saints" in the fr section in the regional file fixed the problem. This problem appear in gf and hr as well. -- Bertrand LUPART

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Message from the list admin
by Peter Bortas ＠ Pike developers forum 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

I've just approved a couple of old non-member postings, so prepare to deal with the temporal confusion.

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Regexp.PCRE compilation failures
by Alexander Demenshin 08 Oct '03

08 Oct '03

Hi, There are several undefined symbols on my system (node name "hugo" on Pikefarm), I guess because I've PCRE v3.9 installed (a bit outdated, but included in recent SuSe Linux). Any chances to fix that? :) I would suggest to surround #ifdefs around specific options, not only around pcre_fullinfo(). Regards, /Al

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Some tasks from the conference
by Martin Stjernholm, Roxen IS ＠ Pike developers forum 07 Oct '03

07 Oct '03

Here's a list I made of various things to do that came up at the conference. It's not complete; especially it doesn't include the stuff that Martin Baehr kept track of on the whiteboards. Perhaps he can complete it with those things? These items are both large and small. I've marked the ones I feel more personally responsible for, as well as those I think ought to be fixed before a 7.6 release. Important enough to be finished before 7.6: o Clean up the module make system. o Document the module make system. o Add local_install target to the module make system, to make it simple for users who download standalone modules to get them installed in their user account instead of in the system pike installation. Other important things: o Document the C API more. (mast, hopefully with help from others with the knowledge..) o Describe memory handling in the manuals, i.e. refcounting vs gc:ing, various kinds of leaks and ways to combat them, etc. (mast) o Transfer the pike-community.org contents to a Steam server c/o Martin Baehr. Bug fixes: o Fix the memory overwrite bug in the "uses" array in peep.c that David Gourdelier has discovered. (More info needed.) o Fix the bug which caused a fatal in the gc for David Gourdelier. (More info needed.) (mast) Not that important: o Implement a variant of _locate_references that is more suited for normal pike programmers. For instance, it should return a data structure that describes the references to an object instead of dumping it all on stderr. (mast) o Add a function or option to create_process that conveniently starts a pike interpreter with another pike script. o Add a function to change the argv array of the pike process. o Dump pike backtraces on SIGSEGV. o Finish the implementation of the "variant" feature (i.e. runtime dispatch on function argument types). o Fix odd indentation of the output from %O for e.g. arrays. (mast) o Valgrind some more. (Apparently done by Nilsson now.) o Fix LXR view of the pike source on the pike site. o Implement this_function().

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throw or return
by Martin Nilsson (saturator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 06 Oct '03

06 Oct '03

Looking through the functions in the System module it looks like a big mix between throwing an exception on error or returning the errno from the function. Is there a good reason for this mix? Is this something that should be fixed (other than more documentation on which functions behaves how)?

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Public relations opportunities
by Martin Baehr 05 Oct '03

05 Oct '03

1. Book about pike apps (pike, caudium, camas, sTeam, ...) - kiwi knows more 2. Powered by pike logo on websites 3. Pike marketing as a semantic web language - uwe and IDA 4. Presentations at computer user group meetings - embee shares his slides 5. Articles http://devshed.com/ http://webmonkey.com/ http://sun.com/bigadmin/ http://ibm.com/developerworks/ yearly language update (url?) linux magazines 6. Language shootout - karl 7. Killer apps / pike hack repository more ideas and urls are welcome greetings, martin.

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more tasks from the conference
by Martin Baehr 05 Oct '03

05 Oct '03

bill was so kind to type the notes from the whiteboard: 1. pike module repository - bill 2. embedding - needs work - marek + IDA 3. aclocal for pike detection - marek + bill 4. configuration examples - marek 5. pike community 6. internationalisation / localization - caudium group 7. iterator api - mast 8. pr brainstorming (see seperate message) 9. pike security - nilsson 10. gc (boehm?) ida? 11. hack repository => get data - mast => steam - embee greetings, martin.

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valgrind
by Martin Nilsson (saturator) ＠ Pike (-) developers forum 02 Oct '03

02 Oct '03

After the last few days activities it is now possible to run the entire Pike testsuite in valgrind without any errors in Pike (though the gdbm lib has some problems).

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