Guile 1.5.7 beta available for testing.

[Rob Browning]

We are pleased to annouce the availability of Guile 1.5.7 for testing.
Please report problems to address@hidden or address@hidden

Note that the 1.5.X series is a BETA series, intended only for
testing, so please don't put it into a distribution or anything
similar.  If after two weeks, no agreed upon release-critical bugs
have been found, then the first 1.6 stable version, 1.6.1, will be
released.

You can find the file here:

  ftp://ftp.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de/pub/guile/

If you're interested in testing, please try as much of the following
as is convenient:

        - Unset GUILE_LOAD_PATH.

        - Remove automake and autoconf from your path, or turn off
          their execute bits, or something.  (Users must be able to
          build from the tarfile without installing those tools.)  As
          an example, you could disable the tools during the test like
          so:

            mkdir /tmp/stub
            cat > /tmp/stub/do-nothing <<EOF
            #!/bin/sh
            echo warning: $0 called
            sleep 10
            exit 0
            EOF
            chmod +x /tmp/stub/do-nothing
            ln /tmp/stub/do-nothing /tmp/stub/automake
            ln /tmp/stub/do-nothing /tmp/stub/autoconf  # etc
            PATH=/tmp/stub:$PATH

        - Configure, "make", "make check", and "make install".  Make
          sure to remove your previous install tree before the "make
          install".

        - Make sure LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't include anything
          unnecessary -- though at the moment it (or
          LTDL_LIBRARY_PATH) will need to include guile's lib
          directory if that directory is not already in the normal
          places libltdl looks.

        - Run the test suite on the installed version.
            ./check-guile -i [INSTALL_PATH]/bin/guile

        - Look at the install tree (with "find | sort" or similar) and
          make sure nothing seems obviously amiss.

        - Check that the dependencies in guile-readline/Makefile look
          OK.  (We currently use a kludge which edits the dependencies
          generated by automake so that Guile can be built in a
          directory separate from the source tree also with non-GNU
          make programs.)

        - Make sure readline works.

        - You might try the example code in the doc directory.

Thanks

-- 
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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