[UNIX] 2.8.3
Ian Piumarta
Ian.Piumarta at inria.fr
Wed Sep 6 21:40:23 UTC 2000
Folks,
Blessed relief! I think we're almost there... In the usual place:
Squeak-2.8pre3-ppc-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Squeak-2.8pre3-sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1.tar.gz
Squeak-2.8pre3-alphaev56-dec-osf4.0e.tar.gz
Squeak-2.8pre3-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Squeak-2.8pre3.tar.gz (the Unix support sources)
Squeak-2.8pre3-image.tar.gz (same as pre2, but just in case...)
Squeak-2-sources.tar.gz (V2.sources)
This (hopefully penultimate but still PRE)-release serves three
purposes:
1. Several small (but annoying) bugs fixed, including what
seems to be the last of the socket problems that appeared
when the SourceForge changes were incorporated.
2. Several small (but significant) changes to the build and
distribution processes:
- various changes for Irix (thanks to Bert) which
should make things even more portable elsewhere too;
- the tar files now contain "trees" reflecting the suggested
installation locations, plus a script to do the install;
- problems with FFI configuration should be fixed (it is now
never built as as an internal plugin, and the build seems
to work ok when libffi is not available).
Plus other stuff, but I can't remember what. Oh yes:
- I officially throw in the towel. There is now a configuration
file in the "unix" dir called PLUGINS that describes the
obvious thing. Until something is done about the names of the
generated files, this seems the only non-utterly-ludicrous
solution.
3. I'd like feedback as to whether the following serve any
useful purpose whatsoever. In the same FTP dir as the above tar
files:
Squeak-2.8-3.ppc.rpm Squeak-ffi-2.8-3.ppc.rpm
Squeak-2.8-3.i386.rpm Squeak-ffi-2.8-3.i386.rpm
Squeak-image-2.8-3.noarch.rpm
Squeak-sources-2-1.noarch.rpm
Squeak-2.8-3.src.rpm
Squeak-image-2.8-3.src.rpm
Squeak-sources-2-1.src.rpm
The "ffi" stuff has been put into a subpackage to avoid complaints
from rpm when installing the basic Squeak package. (rpm insists
that any package including the ffi .so files has libffi.so.1 as a
requirement, and refuses to install without a --force/--nodeps
switch. I figured the most elgant solution was a separate package,
containing just SqueakFFIPrims.so.)
There are no sparc.rpm files, because somebody uninstalled the
X11-devel package on our sparc-linux-gnu box while I wasn't
looking (and I'm way too lazy to go find the rpm and put it back).
Voilà. Enjoy!
Ian
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