gearing up for prerelease

[Lars Gullik Bjønnes]

I have now only one patch pending (the Andre patch(es)) before I begin
to create the prerelease.

It would be _very_ nice if some people could take the time to checkout
the current cvs and tell if it compiles ok and that it seems to run
fine.

My testing so far indicates that this is the case, but it would be
nice to have some backup on that.

        Lgb