ANNOUNCE: LCD4Linux-0.10.1-RC1 released!

Hi there,

Thanks to Martin Hejl (who kicked me in the ass some days
ago), I
released the first release candidate of LCD4Linux-0.10.1

Have a look at http://lcd4linux.bulix.org
 for details, download, and a
(probably incomplete) list of changes.

The 'trunk' was bumped to version 0.10.2, but there will be
no
development until 0.10.1 is released.

I'd appreciate any tests and feedback on RC1, so we can
release 0.10.1
shortly, and continue work on 0.10.2 (there are plans for
scrolling,
finally!)

Note that I got two cool displays recently, but I withstood
to develop a
driver for them, but released RC1.

So that's the main reason for releasing that seldom: every
time I'm
thinking of releasing something, someone sends me a new and
unsupportd
display 


Have fun, Michael


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Michael Reinelt wrote:
> Thanks to Martin Hejl (who kicked me in the ass some
days ago), I
> released the first release candidate of
LCD4Linux-0.10.1
> 
> Have a look at http://lcd4linux.bulix.org
 for details, download, and a
> (probably incomplete) list of changes.

Finally! I just bumped the version in Gentoo[1] and ran into
few minor
problems:

1. ChangeLog
As you sure noticed, the ChangeLog shipped with the RC was
not current.

2. Filename and URL
There's a problem with you hosting the download files in the
wiki:
Besides the download being pretty slow (about 10kb/s), with
a wget query
the downloaded file's name will be
"lcd4linux-0.10.1-RC1.tar.gz?format=raw". As
renaming does not work with
the Gentoo package management and mirror scripts, I cannot
give your
link as "source link" in the package. I worked
around that problem by
manually introducing the file into the Gentoo mirroring, but
if it is
possible in the future, please host the file outside the
wiki.

3. gcc-Warning
Maybe you saw them yourself, but in case you missed them,
here they are:

drv_BeckmannEgle.c: In function 'drv_BuE_CT_start':
drv_BeckmannEgle.c:355: warning: overflow in implicit
constant conversion

drv_WincorNixdorf.c: In function 'drv_WN_start':
drv_WincorNixdorf.c:143: warning: overflow in implicit
constant conversion

drv_Image.c: In function 'drv_IMG_flush_PPM':
drv_Image.c:117: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 4
has type 'long unsigned int'
drv_Image.c:124: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int',
but argument 3
has type 'long unsigned int'

plugin_mysql.c: In function 'configure_mysql':
plugin_mysql.c:93: warning: pointer targets in passing
argument 6 of
'cfg_number' differ in signedness


> The 'trunk' was bumped to version 0.10.2, but there
will be no
> development until 0.10.1 is released.
> 
> I'd appreciate any tests and feedback on RC1, so we can
release 0.10.1
> shortly, and continue work on 0.10.2 (there are plans
for scrolling,
> finally!)

Is there a reason you didn't svn-tag the rc? It's always
nice to have
the old versions tagged to get the changes at the next
release 


> So that's the main reason for releasing that seldom:
every time I'm
> thinking of releasing something, someone sends me a new
and unsupportd
> display 

Damn. I just get to see the pictures of the displays in the
wiki. Must
be nice to get some examples ;-P

Anyway, nice work.

Robert

[1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x
86/app-misc/lcd4linux/

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(taking this off -users)

Michael Reinelt wrote:
>> 3. gcc-Warning
>> Maybe you saw them yourself, but in case you missed
them, here they are:
> Strange, I don't see this warnings. What version of gcc
do you use? here
> its gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian
4.1.1-21)

I'm using 'gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)' for
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.


> As long as I don't get the warnings, it will be hard to
fix'em.

I can compile-test if you have any patches, but I don't have
the time to
look into the code right now. Got an exam on tuesday.


>> Is there a reason you didn't svn-tag the rc? It's
always nice to have
>> the old versions tagged to get the changes at the
next release 
> Yes, I don't want to tag RC's, but I will tag 0.10.1. I
hope that there
> will be no more RC's in the future, but a much more
frequent release cycle.

Sounds good.


Robert


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Hi Robert,

>> Strange, I don't see this warnings. What version of
gcc do you use? here
>> its gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian
4.1.1-21)
> 
> I'm using 'gcc (GCC) 4.1.1 (Gentoo 4.1.1-r3)' for
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu.

Oh, you're using x86_64... that may explain things...

In the meantime, I upgraded to gcc-4.2; changed the warning
options to
very very pedantic, and fixed lots of other warnings (eg the
struc
initialization from obsolete 'field:value' to
'.field=value')

I didn't get your warnings, but I tried to fix them
"blindly".

fixes are in trunk and backported to branches/0.10.1

> I can compile-test if you have any patches
Please do so!

TIA, Michael

btw, do you know of a way to reduce the
"chattyness" of the compilation
process? Since I upgraded autoconf/automake/autowhatever
some time ago,
the compilation of one single file emits 3-5 lines, and I
regularly
overlook these warnings...


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On Sonntag, 25. Februar 2007, Michael Reinelt wrote:

> I didn't get your warnings, but I tried to fix them
"blindly".
I think you can pass GCC an option to pretend to be on 64Bit
to see that 
warning, IIRC it was "-m64".
Never tested that however, on 64Bit myself ;)

>
> btw, do you know of a way to reduce the
"chattyness" of the compilation
> process? Since I upgraded
autoconf/automake/autowhatever some time ago,
> the compilation of one single file emits 3-5 lines, and
I regularly
> overlook these warnings...

Easy:
# make > /dev/null

Warnings go to STDERR, and are still visible.

Alternatively, you can tell GCC to bail out on warnings,
"-pedantic-errors" 
and "-Wfatal-errors" seem to do that.

/Ernst 


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Hi Ernst,

>> I didn't get your warnings, but I tried to fix them
"blindly".
> I think you can pass GCC an option to pretend to be on
64Bit to see that 
> warning, IIRC it was "-m64".

Great thanks! Now the warnings should be fixed! (and
commited to SVN,
both to trunk and 0.10.1 branch)

> Never tested that however, on 64Bit myself ;)
with -m64 I get two strange assembler errors, but I think
the result
from the fact that I'm on 32Bit (at least I hope so 

>> btw, do you know of a way to reduce the
"chattyness" of the compilation
>> process?

> Easy:
> # make > /dev/null

Uh... shame, shame, shame on me 


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