commit c39516861677fe5d964818c0b36350404e3ea63c
parent a4e8c0581b288abac5b8e601743875b1d113108c
Author: tgoodwin <tgoodwin>
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 10:58:29 +0000
add some more news
Diffstat:
| M | NEWS | | | 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
