2.3 for Unix

Kevin Fisher kfisher at rim.net
Thu Jan 28 16:11:38 UTC 1999


I just wanted to pass on to everyone that the latest Linux version works great!
 I just compiled it (complete with the sound patches courtesy of Lex Spoon) and
it works great!  Demo number 3 works fine (but slowly), and the Flash player
works great!  Thanks a lot, guys!!!


On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Ian Piumarta wrote:
>ftp://alix.inria.fr/pub/squeak/unix/2.3 contains the usual stuff for:
>
>	alpha-osf1-v4.0
>	i386-linux-2.0.36	(linked against glibc-2.0.7)
>	i386-linux-2.1.24	(linked against libc-5.4.38)
>	sparc-solaris-2.5.1
>	sparc-sunos-4.1.4
>
>with the regular four-file snack-packs in the "distributions" directory.
>
>Major noteworthies:
>
>  * graphics-related bug fixed (can anyone spot what it is?  this bug
>    has been there since 1.13 and nobody noticed!)
>
>  * user-defined primitives are gone (definitively! -- use named
>    primitives instead)
>
>  * there's an optional low-res 1/50 second clock using ITIMER_REAL and
>    SIGALRM, avoiding lots of relatively expensive calls to
>gettimeofday()
>
>    NOTE: this means that sleep() won't work; if you really
>          absolutely cannot avoid calling sleep() from custom-made
>          code then change
>		#define	USE_ITIMER
>	  to
>		#undef	USE_ITIMER
>	  at sqXWindow.c:93 and recompile the VM
>
>  * the ".image" extension on the image name is added implicitly (you
>    have the option of omitting it on the command line)
>
>  * a couple of Makefile pimples squeezed, more or less as suggested by
>    Bert Freudenberg and Lex Spoon
>
>Let me know of any problems ASAP.  Enjoy!
>
>Ian





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