From: Peter G. <pe...@ar...> - 2005-07-04 13:55:24
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ABCL 0.0.7 is now available: http://armedbear.org/abcl.html > If all goes well, I'll try to put together a binary distribution for > 0.0.7. Things did go well (in other respects), but at the last minute I ran out of time, so 0.0.7 is still just a source release. The README file in the root directory of the distribution contains build instructions. Thanks to Kevin Reid for providing a starting point for Mac OS X build support. I went on from there without benefit of a Mac, so in the end it may or may not work. Please let me know. The big new thing in this release is that in an emergency, ABCL can now be used as a build host to build SBCL. If you have abcl in your PATH and source for SBCL 0.9.2.12 (or later), you can just do sh make.sh abcl and when you come back from vacation, you should have a new SBCL. (The build takes 1 hour 42 minutes on my AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+; I'll try to make that go a bit quicker in future releases.) Thanks to Christophe Rhodes for his advice and encouragement over the many months it took to get the build-sbcl project to this point. On non-Windows platforms, the abcl startup script that is generated by the normal ABCL build now contains java -Xmx256M to increase the maximum size of the Java heap. This (or something similar) is necessary for building SBCL. ABCL 0.0.7 fails 90 out of 21206 total tests in the GCL ANSI test suite, compared to 77 out of 21085 tests for 0.0.6. The higher number of failures doesn't reflect any significant regressions. The additional failures come, for the most part, from new tests, plus a few failures that are caused by the relaxation of initarg checking in 0.0.7's CLOS. (The code that checked for bogus keyword arguments to MAKE-INSTANCE and friends was broken in previous releases and sometimes interfered with the execution of correct user code, so I've taken out the checking until it can be fixed properly.) Please report problems to the j development mailing list: arm...@li... Thanks for your support. -Peter |