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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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<title>CM3 Version 5.4 Release Status</title>
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<h2>CM3 5.4.x Release Status</h2>
<p>
This page summarises the current status of the cm3 5.4 release
branch.
</p>
<p><b>CM3 5.4.0 has been released.</b> You can get it from the
<a href="download.html">download page</a>.<br>
This page may still be used to track further development on the 5.4
release branch, if necessary.
</p>
<h3>Getting source code from the 5.4 release branch</h3>
<p>
You can check out the source code for this release from the release
branch via anonymous CVS.
</p>
<pre>
cvs -d :pserver:anonymous@modula3.elegosoft.com:/usr/cvs login
[The password is empty, just hit return.]
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@modula3.elegosoft.com:/usr/cvs checkout -r release_branch_cm3_5_4 -P cm3
</pre>
<p>The tag for the CM3 5.4.0 release is <i>release_CM3_5_4_0</i></p>
<p>
There are source code archives for the 5.4.0 release available from
the <a href="download.html">download page</a>.
</p>
<h3>Mandatory Targets</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<b>Target</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Status</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Comment</b>
</td>
<!--
<td>
<b>Test Installation Archive</b>
</td>
-->
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
FreeBSD4
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Even mentor runs fine. Only tested FreeBSD 6.1.
</td>
<!--
<td>
<a href="cm3-min-POSIX-FreeBSD4-d5.4-0.tgz">download</a>
</td>
-->
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
LINUXLIBC6
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
A workaround for segmentation faults on Fedora Core 5 has been found.
See <a
href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3devel/archive/2006/2006-09/1157492987000/index_html?fullMode=1#1157632667000">here</a> for details.
Test archive built on Debian Sarge.
</td>
<!--
<td>
<a href="cm3-min-POSIX-LINUXLIBC6-d5.4-0.tgz">download</a>
</td>
-->
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
SOLgnu
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Segmentation faults in RTThread described
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3devel/archive/2006/2006-08/1154704349000#1154704349000">here</a>
have been fixed in
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000/index_html?fullMode=1#1156343464000">this commit</a>.
<br>
</td>
<!--
<td>
<a href="cm3-min-POSIX-SOLgnu-d5.4-0.tgz">download</a>
</td>
-->
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
PPC_DARWIN
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Now fine.
</td>
<!--
<td>
<a href="cm3-min-POSIX-PPC_DARWIN-d5.4-0.tgz">download</a>
</td>
-->
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Optional Targets</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<b>Target</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Status</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Comment</b>
</td>
<!--
<td>
<b>Test Installation Archive</b>
</td>
-->
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
NT386
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<b>--</b>
</td>
<td>
Dropped from 5.4 release. Work is being done on the HEAD
branch by Jay Krell to get things working on Windows again.
Will likely be included in 5.5.
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
PPC_LINUX
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<b>--</b>
</td>
<td>
Dropped from 5.4 release because it does not currently compile.
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
NetBSD2_i386
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Tested on NetBSD 3.0.1.
You may have to add the line <pre>/usr/X11R6/lib</pre>
to the file /etc/ld.so.conf for the compile to succeed.
</td>
<td>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>Features</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<b>Feature</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Status</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Comment</b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
M3GC based on gcc-3.4.5
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Initial segmentation violation problems fixed by Olaf Wagner
in <a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000#1154867402000">this commit</a>.
<br>
Backend based on gcc-3.4.5 was made default by Olaf Wagner in
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000#1154868756000">this commit</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
New garbage collection support turned on by default.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
New "generational/incremental" garbage collection made default
by Anthony Hosking in
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-06/1151001441000#1151336865000">this commit</a>.
<br>
Obsolete "enhanced" garbage collection removed from binary
distributions by Olaf Wagner in
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000#1154868756000">this commit</a>.
<br>
System call wrappers are now unused but we will not bother
removing them from CVS yet.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Current plotting package.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Removed from standard packages again in
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000/index_html?fullMode=1#1156859504000">this commit</a>
since it requires plplot to be installed.
Source code will still be shipped with release for people who want to use plplot.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Current math package.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Added to standard packages in
<a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000#1155033527000">this commit</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Dynamic linking by default on Linux which rarely ship with static libs these days.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Done in <a href="https://mail.elegosoft.com/pipermail/m3commit/archive/2006/2006-08/1154440726000#1155834541000">this commit</a>.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Documentation about how to configure linking for
Modula3 programs.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Initial version comitted.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
M3IDE (Reaktor)
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<b>??</b>
</td>
<td>
Status unknown - Randy Coleburn said he was going to begin working on this.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
m3gdb
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
New m3gdb (version 6.4.3) by Rodney M. Bates imported into CVS.
Compiles and works fine on every working target except PPC_DARWIN.
PPC_DARWIN will not feature m3gdb for this release.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3>TODO</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="5">
<tr>
<td>
<b>Item</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Status</b>
</td>
<td>
<b>Comment</b>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Update installation notes.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Done.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Check documentation for more things that need to be updated.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Done.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
Test installation on all platforms.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#00FF00">
<b>:-)</b>
</td>
<td>
Done.
</td>
</tr> <tr>
<td>
Write release announcement.
</td>
<td bgcolor="#FF0000">
<b>:-(</b>
</td>
<td>
Not done yet.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
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