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commit c39516861677fe5d964818c0b36350404e3ea63c
parent a4e8c0581b288abac5b8e601743875b1d113108c
Author: tgoodwin <tgoodwin>
Date:   Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:58:29 +0000

add some more news

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MNEWS | 26+++++++++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ Since rc-1.5b2 was released, many fixes have been made to the -autoconfiguration code, some of them critical. +autoconfiguration code, some of them critical. One problem, which I introduced, +I might never have found without ElectricFence. A few bugs in the rc code itself have been fixed. These were mostly obscure. I could not have tracked them down so quickly without Source @@ -14,6 +15,22 @@ flavour of `make') to build in a separate directory from the source. Creeping featurism: rc now has a `-V' switch to report its version number. +The detection of signal names has been completely revised. Vincent Broman +suggested this, and contributed mksignal.c. + +The interaction with readline has been redone, principally to work +around bugs in the readline library. Tom Culliton persuaded me of +the need for this, and his patches to an earlier version of rc became +readline.c. + +I rewrote addon.[ch] to provide a more useful example of adding extra +builtins. + +The rc build system no longer considers running `yacc': parse.y is for +information only. The supplied y.tab.[ch] were built with Berkeley +`yacc', and lightly edited to remove a few gcc warnings. This idea was +suggested by Gert-Jan Vons. + Binaries of rc-1.5b3 are typically a few kilobytes smaller than 1.5b2. I believe this is due to improved autoconfiguration: we are now much more careful only to include code that will be used. @@ -21,12 +38,7 @@ more careful only to include code that will be used. rc-1.5b3 will build under the beta19 release of CygWin32. It won't run trip.rc successfully, and does not appear to be very stable. -The detection of signal names has been completely revised. - -The interaction with readline has been redone, principally to work -around bugs in the readline library. - See ChangeLog for more details. Tim Goodwin -1998-07-15 +1998-07-16