[racket-dev] Pre-Release Checklist for v5.1.1

Source distributions compiled ok. The racket distribution no longer
produces a 'drscheme' executable even though it does produce 'mzscheme'.

Is that a mistake?

On 04/21/2011 11:50 AM, Jon Rafkind wrote:
>> * Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu>
>>   Release tests for (one of the) linux releases:
>>   - Test that the `racket' and `racket-textual' source releases
>>     compile fine
>>   - Test that the binary installers for both work, try each one in
>>     both normal and unix-style installation modes. (just ubuntu)
>>   [Note: get the release candidates from the URL in this email. Use
>>    the 'static table' link to see a list of all tar files available]
>>
> The binary installers had problems with libffi.so.5. Source
> distributions are still compiling. I used
>
> plt-5.1.0.900-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-jaunty.sh
> mz-5.1.0.900-bin-i386-linux-ubuntu-jaunty.sh
>
> My notes:
> textual - failed in normal mode after install
>    $ ./racket
>    ./racket: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>   failed in unix mode during install
>   Unpacking into
> "/tmp/work/x/binary/textual-unix/racket-textual-tmp-install"... done.
>   racket-textual-tmp-install/bin/racket: error while loading shared
> libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
>   racket - failed in normal mode after install
>     $ ./racket
>     ./racket: error while loading shared libraries: libffi.so.5: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>   failed in unix mode during install
>    Unpacking into "/tmp/work/x/binary/racket-unix/racket-tmp-install"...
> done.
>    racket-tmp-install/bin/racket: error while loading shared libraries:
> libffi.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>    Error: installation failed
>      (Removing installation files in
> /tmp/work/x/binary/racket-unix/racket-tmp-install)
>
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