Hi, I'm not sure if you want this traffic on the list. I got everything compiled, etc. Ran the command below and captured the output. As you mentioned, there is a segment fault. I installed ruby 1.9.1p129 and changed the command below and added a - t /usr/local/bin/ruby after the -B <config> option and that got the same run with Ruby 1.9. It has various failures. The test that faults is:
The return keyword in a Thread - raises a LocalJumpError if used to exit a thread
It passes Ruby 1.9 so I thought I would dig into that test first. Does that sound good? Perry Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com ) Low cost SATA Disk Systems for IBMs p5, pSeries, and RS/6000 AIX systems On Jun 29, 2009, at 9:49 AM, Eloy Duran wrote:
Hi Perry,
I wouldn't worry too much about duplicate efforts, there aren't many people working on the core itself. What you could do to start out, is to run the rubyspecs in spec/ frozen/language, as they should all run iirc, but there are some tagged ones.
To run spec all which are tagged as failing:
./mspec/bin/mspec run -I./lib -B ./spec/macruby.mspec -g fails ./ spec/frozen/language --format spec
(Actually, right now there's one causing a segfault.)
You can then verify that the spec is valid for 1.9.x (HEAD), if not it should be updated, if it is then MacRuby should be fixed. I think this is a great way to start on the C parts of MacRuby.
Besides the fails tag there are also specs tagged as critical, which will segfault etc. So there's actually a nice list of places that need to be fixed :) Be sure to check out the mspec-tag script to list all tagged specs.
HTH, Eloy
On 29 jun 2009, at 15:46, Perry Smith wrote:
I'm an old crusty C programmer. I have a masters in CS and my focus was languages and compilers. MacRuby and LLVM are really exciting to me. I use a Mac. Working with Ruby since 2006. Love Rails. etc etc.
I saw a previous thread in the archive where a newbie wanted to help and the reply was to help with testing. Thats fine. I'm worried about duplicate effort . Maybe split off some bugs / test cases I can work on? Most of my work will be during the weekends but I think I'd like to start setting things up during this week.
Take care, Perry Ease Software, Inc. ( http://www.easesoftware.com )
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