[mapserver-dev] MapServer 8.0 Beta Release?

[Jeff McKenna]

Thanks Even, I saved the 2 errors locally (next time I'll save the log 
url instead) : https://pastebin.com/4GAiVhLx

(yes very difficult to reproduce locally)

-jeff



On 2022-05-23 2:15 p.m., Even Rouault wrote:
> Jeff,
> 
> is there a build log somewhere with the warnings in mapowscommon / 
> mapjoin ? I can't reproduce that locally with my native Focal 
> environement. Perhaps a different set of compilation options or 
> different compiler version.
> 
> Even
> 
> Le 23/05/2022 à 18:16, Jeff McKenna a écrit :
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I thought I'd share some interesting updates from my side, for the 8.0 
>> release:
>>
>> - Travis and GitHub build actions have been updated to run on Ubuntu 
>> Focal (20.04)
>> - the builds compile PHPNG MapScript for 7.4.6, 8.0.19, 8.1.6 / Python 
>> MapScript 3.7.7, 3.8.3, 3.9.0 without any issues
>> - msautotests: I've made it down to about 20 broken tests (from about 
>> 200, yikes)
>> - of note, is that the existing flag "-Werror" while compiling 
>> MapServer (which means break on all warnings, treat warnings as 
>> errors) does cause issues in several files (mappwscommon.c, majoin.c), 
>> so the nasty workaround is to set -Wno-stringop-overflow, 
>> -Wno-format-overflow in the build script, which is not good, meaning 
>> that these warnings should be fixed and -Werror reset.
>>
>> You can follow along or made changes at 
>> https://github.com/MapServer/MapServer/pull/6430
>>
>> I think the upgrade to a more recent Ubuntu for all of our tests was 
>> critical for the 8.0 release (which is why I put so much darn effort 
>> in that).
>>
>> Hope this looks good to everyone.  Exciting,
>>
>> -jeff
>>
>>
>>