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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