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Am 31.05.2018 um 21:51 schrieb Anthony D. Baye:
> Building from the alpha worked. Running test render now.
"The alpha"? Oh, for Pete's sake! _Which_ alpha?
There's v3.8.0-alpha, which could be just about anything because that's
what the version number is in the master branch for practical reasons,
and one of which you had been trying to build unsuccessfully.
Then there's v3.8.0-alpha.9606898, which is the latest tagged version,
and the one I suggested.
Your reply wasn't too precise whether you downloaded that one, or just
re-downloaded from the master branch again.
Not to mention v3.8.0-alpha.9475849, v3.8.0-alpha.9436902,
v3.8.0-alpha.9387404, v3.8.0-alpha.9322209, and v3.8.0-alpha.9309453 --
or even the various v3.7.1-alpha versions.
Please, folks, make my life easier by being _as precise as you can_
about version numbers, _every_ time you mention a version number,
_especially_ when dealing with build errors.
Every single commit may accidently break portability with /some/
platform out there (be it due to a bug in the platform, or the use of
code that turns out to be less portable than presumed), and unless I
know /exactly/ what source code version you are building from, I have
little chance of troubleshooting the issue: The build output doesn't
magically tell me how to fix it; it is only a first pointer into the
maze that is the combination of source code and your specific platform.
Chances are I can't re-create your build errors on the platforms I have
at my disposal (otherwise I'd probably have come across the issue before
even making the change publicly available), nor on the build test
services we're using (otherwise the automated build tests would have
bombed, which I'd most certainly have noticed, and I'd probably have
followed-up the change with a hotfix soon after; also such broken code
would be unlikely to receive the honor of being tagged), so to
understand the root cause _behind_ the build errors you see, I have to
follow trails of breadcrumbs through the source code -- and not just any
version of it, but the particular one giving you trouble.
TL;DR: The importance of version information in troubleshooting your
problems cannot be overstated.
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