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

[JINMEI Tatuya / 神明達哉]

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).

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,

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JINMEI, Tatuya
Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.