[Eli-project-users] Eli 4.8.2

[William M W. <wil...@Co...>]

I’ve uploaded a new distribution, Eli 4.8.2, to SourceForge.  This distribution is essentially a mirror of the latest state of the Git repository.  It contains the bug fixes that have been made since the release of Eli 4.8.1.

I verified Eli 4.8.2 on a Mac Air with an M1 chip under Mac OS Ventura 13.3, and on a Dell Dimension 2400 running Gentoo Linux.  Here is the information about the compilers on the two machines:

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doyle% gcc --version
Apple clang version 14.0.0 (clang-1400.0.29.202)
Target: arm64-apple-darwin22.4.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

monk% gcc --version
gcc (Gentoo 12.2.1_p20230121-r1 p10) 12.2.1 20230121
Copyright (C) 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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I implemented the system from the tar file in each case, using the process described in README file in the top directory.  There was one well-known error report during execution of the command “./configure q”:

./configure: line 5550: #include: command not found
 
We haven’t been able to pinpoint the cause of the bogus line in file Eli/configure, but we haven’t spent much time on it because it does not affect the result.

I have not been able to reproduce any of Thomas’ errors.  It wasn’t clear to me whether the FunnelWeb error was during the system build or during an Eli session.  If the latter, I would appreciate getting the input data.

Remember that Eli maintains a cache, and also has a concept of a “Versioned package”.  These are not relevant during the system build, since full path names are always used by the scripts.  However, once the system has been built, you need to be well aware of where the command is coming from and what is the default cache.  See https://eli-project.sourceforge.net/elionline/sysadmin_toc.html.  Also, the command “which eli” can tell you whether you have a different command in your path.