[CLN-list] new release

[Bruno Haible]

Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
> (I was just wondering about when the last tag was placed in CLisp...)

The world of C++ compilers (prerequisite of CLN) is evolving faster than
the world of C compilers (prerequisite of GNU clisp). Therefore they can
have different release frequencies.

> >                                           In my understanding
> >    - It would be good to upgrade to Autoconf 2.71 and Libtool 2.4.7,
> >      since these releases include a large number of fixes.
> 
> That should happen automatically with what's in git, I think.

Please give me a tarball. So that what I test is as close as possible
to what you will release — no arbitrary differences. Thanks.

> FWIW, Debian's status is at 
> <https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=cln> where architectures 
> hppa, sparc, sparc64, arm, armel, and armhf were built with -DNO_ASM for 
> various reasons. For arm*, this should not be necessary any more, I dare 
> to hope.

I will test each. I'll build without -DNO_ASM by default, and then see whether
-DNO_ASM is needed.

Bruno