Hi, On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 11:50:41 +0200 Peter Bex <pe...@more-magic.net> wrote:
> The fourth release candidate for CHICKEN 5.3.0 is now available for > download: > > https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2021/10/06/chicken-5.3.0rc4.tar.gz > > The sha256sum of that tarball is: > > ba8da800e708c423c0e6e812fa2a93b947c731e52d115988b0c0f84406040e14 > > The list of changes since 5.2.0 and 5.3.0rc4 is available here: > > https://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2021/10/06/NEWS > > This release candidate fixes a regression that happened somewhere > between 5.2.0 and 5.3.0 which meant static linking was broken for > programs that used certain builtin modules (#1788). > > It also introduces a safety check in the setters for current-user-id, > current-effective-user-id and current-group-id to ensure that only > fixnums are passed in (#1787). > > Please give this new release candidate a try and report your findings > to the mailing list. Here's a suggested test procedure: > > $ make PREFIX=<directory> install check > $ <directory>/bin/chicken-install pastiche Thanks for the new rc, Peter. Unfortunately we've found some issues while giving it a try some hours ago (we had some discussions on IRC): * chicken.foreign leaks into .link files. This can be fixed with [0], by Felix. I suppose Felix is going to submit a patch to chicken-hackers. * chicken.csi leaks into .link files. This issue is actually present in the current stable release (5.2.0), but nobody had noticed it. [0] http://paste.call-cc.org/paste?id=d3ce820bd46cc8d8e7cb2b4605c01ccbd8c704ba#a1 All the best. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario