Re: [ANN] CHICKEN 5.4.0 release candidate 2 available

[Christian Himpe]

Hi,

Thanks for the rc1 fixes! Here are my 5.4-rc2 results:

HW: MacBook Air M2 (arm64)
OS: macos Montery 12.7.5
CC: clang 14.0.0 & gcc 14.1.0

Installation works?: yes
Tests work?: yes
Installation and tests of "pastiche" egg works?: yes
Installation and tests of "matrico" egg works?: yes
Installation of "arcadedb" egg works?: yes

I built with:

make PREFIX=/tmp/chicken PLATFORM=macosx C_COMPILER=gcc install check

Cheers

Christian



> On 25. Jun 2024, at 10:21, Peter Bex <peter@more-magic.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
>