Re: Please test XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" RC1

Stephen> * XEmacs 21.4.11 "Native Windows TTY Support" is released. Stephen> "Native Windows TTY Support" is the twelfth in the OXYMORON series. Stephen> [Note for the RCs: it is hoped that this release will see the 21.4 series Stephen> promoted to stable. Please beat on it hard. installed and running here stephen, will let you know if i find anything that needs fixing i am going to try to get the release candidates for 21.4.11 in the gentoo portage tree, then we can have some more testers :) not sure how successfull i will be but im going to try Stephen> CVS update: use tag "-r r21-4-11rc1" (release-specific) or Stephen> "-r candidate-21-4" (the prerelease branch, sticky tag) Stephen> Anonymous ftp: ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/xemacs-21.4/pretest/ Stephen> Files: xemacs-21.4.11rc1.tar.gz, xemacs-21.4.10-21.4.11rc1.patch.gz Stephen> (the patchkit is only 35kB).] Stephen> Relative to XEmacs 21.4.10 "Military Intelligence", "Native Windows TTY Stephen> Support" Stephen> o fixes a deadlock in Xt timers that manifests in gdb-mode; Stephen> o fixes some crashes on glibc 2.3 systems (including 2.2.9x) by Stephen> disabling mmap in Doug Lea malloc; Stephen> o fixes other build and runtime crashes by defaulting to use of Stephen> the portable dumper on Linux. Stephen> Disabling mmap may cause an increase in memory usage, but this depends Stephen> on usage patterns and in general should rarely be large. If you don't Stephen> like the portable dumper, you can use ./configure --pdump=no [...]. -- XEmacs Advocate | Do not try the patience of Wizards, Gentoo Devotee | for they are subtle and quick to anger. Perl Hacker | - Elric (Technomage) , Babylon 5. Apache God | <mailto:rendhalver at xemacs.org> <GnuPG KeyID: AE51D190>