* New modules `rep.data.trie', `rep.threads.proxy'
* Also added `rep.xml.reader' and `rep.xml.printer', though these
should probably be used with extreme caution
* Appending to queues is now O(1) not O(n)
* Many changes to `rep.net.rpc' module, protocol is incompatible
with previous version. Should be more robust
* `rep.i18n.gettext' module exports the `bindtextdomaincodeset'
function (Christophe Fergeau)
* Slightly more secure way of seeding the rng
* `inexact->exact' can now convert floating point numbers to
rationals (though not optimally). This means that `numerator' and
`denominator' also work better with floats now
* New function `file-ttyp'
* Some random bug fixes
to the latest librep. librep installs and uses its own libtool for use by
rep-* packages. We replace librep's libtool with a symlink to
${LOCALBASE}/bin/libtool and add a dependency on libtool-base. This
addresses PR 19495 by Bill Sommerfeld.
Summary of changes:
- removal of USE_GTEXINFO
- addition of mk/texinfo.mk
- inclusion of this file in package Makefiles requiring it
- `install-info' substituted by `${INSTALL_INFO}' in PLISTs
- tuning of mk/bsd.pkg.mk:
removal of USE_GTEXINFO
INSTALL_INFO added to PLIST_SUBST
`${INSTALL_INFO}' replace `install-info' in target rules
print-PLIST target now generate `${INSTALL_INFO}' instead of `install-info'
- a couple of new patch files added for a handful of packages
- setting of the TEXINFO_OVERRIDE "switch" in packages Makefiles requiring it
- devel/cssc marked requiring texinfo 4.0
- a couple of packages Makefiles were tuned with respect of INFO_FILES and
makeinfo command usage
See -newly added by this commit- section 10.24 of Packages.txt for
further information.
Changes:
* New module `rep.util.md5', has two functions for generating MD5
message digests (of files or strings)
* Changes to the `rep.io.sockets' function:
In the `socket-server' function the HOST and/or PORT arguments may
be false, meaning to listen on all addresses and to choose a
random unused port.
New functions `socket-peer-address' and `socket-peer-port', these
always returns the details of the far end of the connetion.
`socket-address' and `socket-port' have been changed to always
return the details of the local connection point.
* New function in `rep.system' module, `crypt'. A wrapper for the
system's `crypt' function (if it has one)
* New function in `rep.threads' mdoule, `make-suspended-thread'
* New module `rep.net.rpc', provides a text-stream based RPC
mechanism for Lisp programs. Similar in some ways to untyped CORBA.
(This is still in the experimental stage - its interface may
change in forthcoming releases)
* New functions in `rep.data' module, `list->vector' and
`vector->list'
* New macro `define-special-form'. A combination of `defvar' and
`setq' - it always makes the variable special and it always sets
it to the given value
* New module `rep.test.framework' implementing `assert', `check' and
`test' macros. This provides a framework for implementing unit
tests in Lisp modules (such that running the interpreter with the
`--check' option will run all tests that have been set up to be
autoloaded
FOO_REQD=1.0 being converted to foo>=1.0, one can now directly specify
the dependency pattern as FOO_DEPENDS=foo>=1.0. This allows things like
JPEG_DEPENDS=jpeg-6b, or fancier expressions like for postgresql-lib.
Change existing FOO_REQD definitions in Makefiles to FOO_DEPENDS.
CXXFLAGS, and LDFLAGS by the buildlink.mk files so remove the extra
definitions to add them from the package Makefiles. As advised by the
bsd.buildlink.mk file, also ensure that the buildlink.mk files are
included prior to defining any package-specific CFLAGS/LDFLAGS to ensure
that the buildlink directories are at the head of the compiler search
paths.
linking against installed libraries or finding installed headers except
for those that are explicitly linked into ${BUILDLINK_INCDIR} and
${BUILDLINK_LIBDIR}.
out of date - it was based on a.out OBJECT_FMT, and added entries in the
generated PLISTs to reflect the symlinks that ELF packages uses. It also
tried to be clever, and removed and recreated any symbolic links that were
created, which has resulted in some fun, especially with packages which
use dlopen(3) to load modules. Some recent changes to our ld.so to bring
it more into line with other Operating Systems also exposed some cracks.
+ Modify bsd.pkg.mk and its shared object handling, so that PLISTs now contain
the ELF symlinks.
+ Don't mess about with file system entries when handling shared objects in
bsd.pkg.mk, since it's likely that libtool and the BSD *.mk processing will
have got it right, and have a much better idea than we do.
+ Modify PLISTs to contain "ELF symlinks"
+ On a.out platforms, delete any "ELF symlinks" from the generated PLISTs
+ On ELF platforms, no extra processing needs to be done in bsd.pkg.mk
+ Modify print-PLIST target in bsd.pkg.mk to add dummy symlink entries on
a.out platforms
+ Update the documentation in Packages.txt
With many thanks to Thomas Klausner for keeping me honest with this.
* Fix `define' so that it tracks bound variables and ignores
shadowed keywords when traversing code
* Added checks to compilation process for the kind of missing
shared-library problems that many people see
* Fixed the `install-aliases' shell script
libintl for i18n needs. Changes since version 0.12.4 are *lots* of bug
fixes, module namespace reorganization, several _incompatible_ VM changes,
and the addition of several new modules, including a safe-interpreter for
untrusted bytecodes.
Add a new USE_LIBTOOL definition that uses the libtool package instead of
pkglibtool which is now considered outdated.
USE_PKGLIBTOOL is available for backwards compatibility with old packages
but is deprecated for new packages.
