mol-0.9.62 available for download

[Bob Beaton]

Samuel,

First, let me express many thanks for updating MoL! I was able to
download and install it on my G3/YDL2.1 system very easily. And I'm very
happy to see all of the bug fixes. Great job!

Second, despite the update, I'm still having a problem with MoL that
severely limits its usefulness for me. The problem involves MoL's time
keeping. Specifically, when I run MoL for even a short period of time,
the MacOS system clock runs wildly out of synch with the real time. This
problem has been discussed before on this list. But now, with the latest
update, I think the problem has become much worse. 

For example, I started my updated MoL (which was in synch with the
YDL2.1 system clock), checked out a few features for about five minutes,
switched my desktop over to Linux to read my email for another five
minutes, then switched the desktop back to MoL, where I discovered the
MacOS time had lost six hours! Moreover, when I tried to use the Mac
Date and Time control panel to synch up with a time server, it refused
to update the MacOS clock (and did not provide an error message)! 

Do you have any suggestions or work-arounds for this problem? Basically,
the MoL time error prevents me from doing anything that involves
accurate file creation/modification time stamps.

Many thanks,
Bob


On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 21:10, samuel@ibrium.se wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've uploaded mol-0.9.62. It is available from the download
> page, http://www.maconlinux.org/download.html. The changelog
> for this release is included below (compared to 0.9.60 - I decided
> not to release 0.9.61 since unofficial releases have been been
> in circulation for some time).
> 
> * Added --datadir switch to startmol. MOL now looks for modules
>   in several different places. Some directory related changes.
> * MOL now (hopefully) conforms to the File Hierarchy Standard 2.2.
>   The libdir and the data dir have been separated and pref files
>   moved to /var/lib/mol.
> * Merge of ESounD support patch and a small configure.in bugfix.
> * startmol bugfix.
> * Altivec detection fix from BenH.
> * Autogen fix.
> * Distclean fix and repository fix.
> * - The bulk of the code has been made Darwin compatible. 
>   - The Darwin kernel module part is not quite finished though. 
>   - Automake is now utilized.
>   - Arch modularization and little-endian compatibility. Of course,
>   the this is not quite enough to run mol i386...
> * Module compilation fix from Tom Rini.
> * Bugfix for multi-session support (the VSID numbering was reset
>   when the second session started, resulting in multiply used VSIDS).
> * Debug socket name now session dependent.
> * Thread cancellation fix.
> * Small volumes are treated as boot strap partitions, and are no
>   longer mounted r/w unless explicitly exported.
> * Keymapping bugfix.
> * Keyboard layout fixes.
> * Debugger improvements. Among other things, a reliable stream is now
>   used for the inter process communication.
> * Allow relative pathnames for the --elf=image option.
> * Timebase calibration fixes. Improved startmol script. ASYNC_IO
>   used on 2.4 kernels (again). Networking bugfix (-tap was sometimes
>   disabled instead of -tun).
> * Compilation fix.
> 
> Have fun,
> 
> /Samuel
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