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

From: Jay McCarthy (jay.mccarthy at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 21 14:09:10 EDT 2011

Not a mistake. 'mzscheme' is kept for script-compatibility but
'drscheme' is dropped as part of the name change transition.

Jay

2011/4/21 Jon Rafkind <rafkind at cs.utah.edu>:
> 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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