clisp now builds on alpha and ia64

I used the more conservative flags of -D SAFETY=3 -D NO_MULTIMAP_SHM -D NO_MULTIMAP_FILE -D NO_SINGLEMAP -D NO_TRIVIALMAP for the more exotic architectures and it seems to work for alpha and itanium. The hppa buildd failed in a most strange way and I'm waiting with impatience for the results of the m68k and sparc jury :-).

telenet and proxy errors

My bother had severe problem with telenet (the local cable company) and he actually called the helpdesk while I was with him. I noticed the error they made and so could correct it. Normally they ask you to configure http://pac.telenet.be:8080 as pac file. The pack file is:

/* PAC FILE: VERSION MANAGEMENT WITH CVS
 * USE CVSWEB FOR UPDATING !!!
 *
 * Proxy autoconfig file
 *
 * $Revision: 1.29 $
 * $Date: 2004/04/01 06:58:30 $
 *
 */

function FindProxyForURL(url, host)
{
       return "DIRECT";
}

Notice that there is no proxy configured. When this did not work they asked to configure proxy.telenet.be:8080 as a proxy without disabling the pac stuff. This also did not work. After the long call on the expensive helpdesk I tried configuring the proxy and disabling the pac. That worked.

Of course as he was using an inferior operating system as a first step he had reinstalled everything, and lost some data he had forgotten to backup.

I wonder when they will fix the pac file...

Gains and losses

I've removed the hoary and hoary24 sections of the CL package repository I host on p.d.o.
On the other hand I and David D. Smith will adopt the clisp and libsigsegv packages that Will Newton took good care off up until now. We will coordinate the work through the darcs archives on cl-debian.alioth.debian.org.