[Gcl-devel] Re: GCL 2.6.6 is released

[Matt Kaufmann]

Hi, Camm --

It turns out that for some reason I can't see ftp.gnu.org from work, but I can
see if from home.  So I've fetched the tar.gz file.

But I'm getting an error during the make, probably because we have an old
version of gcc by default.  Rather than get that working, I'd be delighted to
download a binary x86 distribution of GCl 2.6.6, but I couldn't find one (we're
running Redhat rather than Debian, but I doubt that this matters).  Is one
available?

Thanks --
-- Matt
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   Greetings!  That's odd, the links seem to work for me.  Are you
   looking at http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl?

   In any case,

   You can get 2.6.6 either from

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gcl/gcl-2.6.6.tar.gz

   or via cvs

   export CVS_RSH=ssh
   export CVSROOT=:ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/gcl
   cvs -z9 -q co -d gcl-2.6.6 -r Version_2_6_6 gcl

   Please let me know if problems persist.

   Take care,

   Matt Kaufmann <address@hidden> writes:

   > Hi, Camm --
   > 
   > Congratulations on the GCL 2.6.6 release!  I'm interested in trying it out 
at
   > AMD, since you've put in that reader extension patch for foo::(bar foobar).
   > 
   > Unfortunately, the "Download" and "Get Latest Release" links appear to be
   > broken.  Any suggestions?
   > 
   > Thanks --
   > -- Matt
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   >    Greetings!  The GCL team is happy to announce the release of version
   >    2.6.6, the latest achievement in the 'stable' (as opposed to
   >    'development') series.  Please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl for
   >    downloading information.
   > 
   >    This release is a minor modification of 2.6.5,
   >    incorporating the known bug fixes that had accumulated on the GCL
   >    errata page together with a few other fixes required for building axiom
   >    on Windows.  From the changelog:
   > 
   >    gcl (2.6.6-1) unstable; urgency=high
   > 
   >      * New upstream release
   >      * Allow .data section to be first in executable, as on solaris.  Also
   >        allow for new bfd section size semantics
   >      * Don't try to write map file when not using GNU ld.  Also allow
   >        compile-file to process pathnames with whitespace on Windows
   >      * Fix corner case fixnum arithmetic on 64bit machines
   >      * Rework gmp_wrappers semantics for older gcc
   >      * Explicitly mprotect loaded code pages PROT_EXEC on x86 Linux, as FC3
   >        now requires it.
   >      * lisp-implementation-version is GCL
   >      * Reader extension patch allowing for foo::(bar foobar) semantics
   >      * a shell script variable fix in "unixport/makefile" for MSYS
   >      * __MINGW32__ malloc initialization fix in "o/alloc.c"
   >      * Windows file/directory fixes in "o/unixfsys.c"
   >      * MinGW32 -march in configure - removes deprecation warnings
   >      * MinGW32 directory fix - "o/mingfile.c".
   >      * Allow for sysconf to determine clock granularity at compile time to
   >        fix time errors on the Itanium
   >      * Disable SGC on macosx until the sgc/save problem can be fixed.
   >      * Fix fixnum print bug on 64bit
   >      * Fix nil types in room report
   >      * 64bit fixes to fixnum_add and fixnum_sub
   >      * Fix Mac SGC/save bug, at least in part
   > 
   >    For the latest information, capabilities, and status of GCL stable,
   >    please see http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/RELEASE-2.6.2.html.
   > 
   >    -- 
   >    Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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   Camm Maguire                                         address@hidden
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