[tlbuild] clisp 2.49.92 ready for inclusion in TeXlive

[Bruno Haible]

Hi,

The clisp release 2.49.92
  https://haible.de/bruno/gnu/clisp-2.49.92.tar.bz2
is a beta release of the forthcoming clisp 2.50, but has already
been tested on numerous architectures. It's the most portable and
most reliable clisp release that exists since more than 10 years.
I can recommend it for inclusion in TeXlive 2018.

Given the schedule of TeXlive 2018
  http://tug.org/pipermail/tlbuild/2018q1/003901.html
  http://tug.org/texlive/
it's better if you don't want for clisp 2.50.

Quoting the NEWS file:

Portability
-----------

This is the first release since 2.33.2 that is supported on a wide range
of platforms:

  Operating system | CPU/ISA        | ABIs
  -----------------+----------------+--------------------------------
  Linux            | x86_64         | 64-bit, 32-bit (i386), x32
  Linux            | i386           | i386
  Linux            | ARMv5..ARMv7   | arm, armhf
  Linux            | ARM64          | 64-bit, 32-bit (arm)
  Linux            | mips 32-bit    | o32
  Linux            | mips 64-bit    | 64-bit, n32, o32
  Linux            | PowerPC 32-bit | 32-bit
  Linux            | PowerPC 64-bit | 64-bit ELFv2, 64-bit, 32-bit
  Linux            | S/390 32-bit   | 32-bit
  Linux            | S/390 64-bit   | 64-bit, 32-bit
  Linux            | SPARC 32-bit   | 32-bit
  Linux            | SPARC 64-bit   | 64-bit, 32-bit
  Linux            | alpha          | alpha
  Linux            | ia64           | 64-bit
  Linux            | HPPA           | 32-bit
  Linux            | m68k           | m68k
  GNU/Hurd         | i386           | i386
  GNU/kFreeBSD     | x86_64         | 64-bit
  GNU/kFreeBSD     | i386           | i386
  FreeBSD          | x86_64         | 64-bit
  FreeBSD          | i386           | i386
  FreeBSD          | ARM64          | 64-bit
  DragonFly        | i386           | i386
  NetBSD           | x86_64         | 64-bit
  NetBSD           | i386           | i386
  NetBSD           | SPARC 32-bit   | 32-bit
  OpenBSD          | x86_64         | 64-bit
  OpenBSD          | i386           | i386
  Mac OS X         | x86_64         | 64-bit, 32-bit (i386), PowerPC
  Mac OS X         | PowerPC 32-bit | 32-bit
  AIX 7            | POWER 64-bit   | 64-bit, 32-bit
  HP-UX 11         | HPPA 64-bit    | 64-bit, 32-bit
  HP-UX 11         | IA64           | 64-bit, 32-bit
  IRIX 6.5         | MIPS 64-bit    | n32, o32
  Solaris 10, 11   | x86_64         | 64-bit, 32-bit (i386)
  Solaris 10       | SPARC 64-bit   | 64-bit, 32-bit
  Haiku            | i386           | i386
  Minix 3          | i386           | i386
  Windows 10       | x86_64         | Linux/x86_64 (WSL)
  Windows          | x86_64         | Cygwin 64-bit, Cygwin 32-bit
  Windows          | i386           | Cygwin 32-bit

The Foreign Function Interface (FFI) is now supported as well, on all of these
platforms (except HP-UX), through libffcall-2.1.


Enjoy!

      Bruno