2.4 Release On 18 May

[Moritz Lenz]

Am 06.05.2010 11:40, schrieb Moritz Lenz:
> Am 05.05.2010 22:48, schrieb Moritz Lenz:
>> Andrew Whitworth wrote:
>>> It's that time again! The 2.4 release is coming out on May 18.
>>>
>>> I don't think we need too long a feature freeze this month, but if we
>>> could avoid large destabilizing changes between now and the release I
>>> would much appreciate it. I would really like to see three things
>>> focused on in the next week for the release:
>>
>> And as always I'd like people to test Rakudo on latest parrot, and weed
>> out regressions and instabilities.
>>
>> For maybe two weeks now Rakudo spectests randomly segfault on new parrot
>> revisions, I've now created tt#1613 for that.
>>
>> There's also a fairly new regression (introduced in the last 24h, I
>> think), documented in TT#1612. My last spectest run showed 8 files
>> exiting with status code 1 or 11.
>
> Another problem I forgot to mention: pbc_to_exe consumes excessive
> amounts of memory on 64bit linux; more than 1GB for building rakudo.
> This means it would be a very bad idea to ship rakudo for current parrot.

I apologize, this was already fixed by bacek++, and I didn't notice the fix.

Rakudo now builds fine in a ulimit of 0.75 GB of virtual memory (even 
with make -j3, since the memory heavy processes mostly don't overlap).

Cheers,
Moritz