[ANN] CHICKEN 5.4.0 release candidate 2 available

[Peter Bex]

Hello all,

The second release candidate for CHICKEN 5.4.0 is now available for
download:

  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/06/25/chicken-5.4.0rc2.tar.gz

The sha256sum of that tarball is:

  4733f7eaffbb9917605314fbc820ae693cb05a4d6829a229b0340ecd81479d72

The list of changes since 5.3.0 and 5.4.0rc1 is available here:

  https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2024/06/25/NEWS

This release candidate fixes a problem with chicken-install on
Windows when using the native shell, which would lead to empty .egg-info
files.  The other fixes are all minor, mostly fixing build and test
suite issues.

Please give it a test and report your findings to the mailing list.

Here's a suggested test procedure:

  $ make PREFIX=<some dir> install check
  $ <some dir>/bin/chicken-install pastiche

If you want to build CHICKEN with a compiler other than the default one,
just use C_COMPILER=<the compiler> (e.g., C_COMPILER=clang) on the make
invocation.

Of course, feel free to explore other supported build options (see the
README file for more information) and actually use CHICKEN 5.3.0rc2 for
your software.

If you can, please let us know the following information about the
environment you tested the RC tarball on:

Operating system: (e.g., FreeBSD 14.0, Debian 12, Windows 11 mingw-msys under 
mingw32)
Hardware platform: (e.g., x86, x86-64, PPC)
C Compiler: (e.g., GCC 11.3.0, clang 16.0.6)
Installation works?: yes or no
Tests work?: yes or no
Installation of eggs works?: yes or no

Thanks in advance!

The CHICKEN Team