[erlang-questions] Source patch for R12B-0 available

[Kenneth Lundin]

Hi Zvi,

First of all only 2 of these 5 patches are relevant for the Windows
binary distribution.
Secondly do you really need the patches? I am sure that most users
don't need these patches since they don't have code that is affected by the
errors corrected in these patches.

If you then really need the patches you can either:
- wait for the R12B-1 to be released
- apply the patches to an installed system and rebuild the modules
manually (it is only 2 modules to build)
- build the windows version from source


/Regards Kenneth Erlang/OTP team , Ericsson AB
On 12/9/07, Zvi <exta7@REDACTED> wrote:
>
> Can somebody give me the instructions how to apply this patch to the Windows
> binary installation?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Zvi
>
>
> Rickard Green wrote:
> >
> > A patch that fixes the following issues is now available at
> > http://www.erlang.org/download.html . Instructions for applying
> > the patch can be found in the patch README.
> >
> > BR,
> > Rickard Green, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > OTP-7006  The SMP emulator on sparc64 erroneously used the sparc32
> >            atomic and the sparc32 spinlock implementations which
> >            caused it to crash.
> >
> > OTP-7012  Matching an empty binary in a record and then using the
> >            same record again could cause a compiler crash.
> >
> >            Example code that triggers the crash:
> >
> >            -record(r, {a,b}).
> >            t(R) ->
> >              #r{a = <<>>} = R,
> >              R#r.b.
> >
> > OTP-7013  file:read/2 and file:consult_stream/1,3 did not use an empty
> >            prompt on I/O devices. This bug has now been corrected.
> >
> > OTP-7014  configuring --enable-darwin-universal or --enable-darwin-64bit
> >            on MacOSX could result in a non optimized emulator. Top level
> >            configure script now corrected.
> >
> > OTP-7015  configuring --with-gd did not produce correct include flags
> >            for percept.
> >
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