Eric Marsden  <emarsden@laas.fr> wrote:
+---------------
| CMUCL version 19a will be released at the end of July. We would
| appreciate help in testing the prerelease binaries that are available
| for various platforms. Here's how you can help test:
|    - download the pre3 binaries for your platform
|    - read the release notes 
|    - try to compile and run your favorite applications ...
+---------------

By the way, thank you *VERY* much for the extremely fortuitous timing!!

Due to security issues [don't ask], a Linux web server that had been
running an application server I had written in CMUCL (the usual thing,
sitting between Apache and PostgreSQL) had to be replaced by a different
server that was running a later version of Linux. The old site ran a
Linux 2.4.3 kernel with glibc-2.2.4-32, which ran the precompiled
CMUCL-18e Linux binaries just fine.

Unfortunately, the new site is running RedHat Fedora 2 with a 2.6.5+
kernel and glibc-2.3.3-27 [no, I *didn't* have any say in that!], and
no matter what I try, CMUCL-18e dumps core with a "Segmentation Fault"
at startup. [I'm a FreeBSD guy myself, so all those ever-changing and
incompatible Linux "glibc"s are a complete mystery to me!]

Fortunately, CMUCL-19a-pre3 runs on the new system right out of the box!!!

*THANK YOU!*  *THANK YOU!*  *THANK YOU!*  *THANK YOU!*


-Rob

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