Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of ReleaseNotes/1.6

Timestamp:

Dec 7, 2010, 4:19:36 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

rme

Comment:

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ReleaseNotes/1.6

@@ -42 +42 @@
 known to work.
 
-Several serious bugs involving Windows have been fixed since the 1.5 release.
+Several serious bugs in the Windows ports have been fixed since the 1.5 release.
 
 === Linux x86 ===
-The distributed binaries were built on an Ubuntu 10.04 system.  If you are using a system with
-an older C library, you may get a message like this:
+The distributed binaries were built on a Debian 5.0 system.  Most distributions
+should be able to run this binary without any trouble.  It's possible that on some
+(presumably very old) systems, you may get a message like this:
 {{{
 lx86cl: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.11' not found (required by lx86cl)
@@ -77 +78 @@
 Ubuntu 9.04,9.10, and 10.04.  (See https://www.genesi-usa.com/products, for
 example.)  The Nokia N900 has also seen some use.
+
+=== FreeBSD ===
+The FreeBSD binaries were built on a FreeBSD 8.1 system.  If you are running 6.x or 7.x,
+you should be able recompile the lisp kernel on your own system and run the lisp without
+any further trouble:
+{{{
+$ cd ccl/lisp-kernel/freebsdx8632   # or freebsdx8664, as appropriate
+$ make
+}}}
 
 == New exported symbols ==