Crack 0.8 Released

[Michael Muller]

[just repeating this on the mailing list]

We're pleased to announce the release of Crack 0.8. The new release includes
a number of bug-fixes and code cleanups as well as a number of new extension
modules, and brings us up to date with LLVM 3.3.

It's been almost a year since our last release, which is far longer than usual
and far longer than what we'd like. The reason for the delay has been the
ongoing work on module caching. Module caching provides a substantial
speed-up of program loading by allowing the executor to reuse the
artifacts of previous compiles instead of recompiling everything from source.
Unfortunately, it has proven to be very difficult to get this feature working
perfectly, and it still doesn't work quite right for complicated generics.
Users are encouraged to experiment with it by adding the -C option.

The complete release notes for 0.8 follows:

- Lots of bug fixes and small features.
- Lots of refactors and code cleanups.
- Implemented most of the code for caching (which is still way too buggy
for anything other than experimentation).
- Added flag driven tracing facility.
- Lots of new modules and extension modules:
- OpenSSL
- libpng
- alsa, midi, jack, and fluidsynth
- curl
- SHA1 digests
- base64 encoding
- Mongo DB and LMDB
- netCDF
- Mersenne Twister PRNG.
- enhanced the test framework to support composite tests.
- added the Wurld OpenGL example program.
- Ported to LLVM 3.3
- Changed annotation-in-generic semantics.

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[denis papin]

HI Guys,

I tried to build crack 0.8 and I got :

./crack -l ./lib:./lib ./tools/nml2html.crk -t \

  ./doc/Manual.template \

  -o doc/Manual.html \

  ./doc/Manual.nml

spug::Exception: ./lib/crack/ext/_pcre.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

make[1]: *** [doc/Manual.html] Error 1

make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/oracle/crack/crack-0.8'

make: *** [install-am] Error 2

I used  GCC 4.5.2 on  Linux ubuntu 2.6.38-16-generic #67-Ubuntu SMP Thu Sep 6 17:58:38 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

but I get the same error on a Debian 6  64 bits.

Thx for your help,

Denis

[Conrad Steenberg]

Hi Denis,

Since you're on Ubuntu (12.04 I'm guessing) you can try using the
Synaptic package manager to check that you have the 64 bit versions of
the development headers installed. It may e.g. be that your libpcre-dev
package is the 32 bit version.

Has anybody else on the list had the same problem?

Conrad

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[Michael Muller]

I suspect the problem here is that some of the 32-bit binaries got shipped with the source tarball (my bad) and apparently doc/Manual.html did not.

Denis you should remove all of the .so's from the lib/crack/ext directory, install libpcre-dev and do a rebuild (if you want the manual, if not you can just "touch doc/Manual.html" and that should let you install with an empty manual, though without the regex module your experience may be sub-optimal)

I'll try to release a fixed 0.8.1 tarball this week.