From the documentation:
This Algol 60 interpreter is based upon the "Revised Report on the
Algorithmic Language Algol 60" [RRA60].
At school, a long time ago, I learned Algol 60 in a completely
theoretical manner. Later I learned Algol 68 and C (and more ...).
The concept of call-by-name never left my mind, and so I started to
write this Algol 60 interpreter: Made for fun and a call-by-name.
Mercury is a modern logic/functional programming language, which
combines the clarity and expressiveness of declarative programming
with advanced static analysis and error detection features. Its
highly optimized execution algorithm delivers efficiency far in excess
of existing logic programming systems, and close to conventional
programming systems. Mercury addresses the problems of large-scale
program development, allowing modularity, separate compilation, and
numerous optimization/time trade-offs.
This package includes the compiler, profiler, debugger, documentation,
etc. It does NOT include the "extras" distribution; that is available
from <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/mercury/download/release.html>.
back a dynamic libperl.so to the installation, needed as a result of a
change made on 2000-11-08 to the perl5-base package to not build against a
dynamic libperl.so.
gets built.
Add makefile fragments to do the right thing for elf and a.out. Make sure
they are used.
Add @exec/@unexec install-info to the PLIST.
Fixes pkg/12154 from Olaf Seibert <rhialto@polderland.nl>
Don't bother trying to compile for debugging in the pkgsrc Makefile.
"-fomit-frame-pointer" makes it impossible to debug on i386 anyway,
and it's easy enough to modify the package makefiles before building.
VERSION 4.0.4
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* FIXED: Problem in GUI tracer tracing predicates loaded from ?- [user].
* MODIFIED: The file-reading predicates (consult, use_module, load_files,
etc.) no longer change current input to the file loaded. This implies
that read/1 and friends read from the current input before the load
predicate was started rather then the file we are loading from.
* FIXED: Setting break-points on facts, or in general on the last
(I_EXIT or I_EXITFACT) instruction of a clause.
VERSION 4.0.3
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* ADDED: New hooking system for help/0, help/1 and apropos/1.
* FIXED: Allow for -f "c:\..." in Windows.
* ENHANCED: Moved boot/listing.pl to the library, reducing the
footprint and startup time. Also modernised the code a bit,
allow for hooks, so listing(class->method) lists an XPCE method
and allow for partial listing: listing(foo(a, _)) to get only
the clauses for which a unifies to the first argument.
* FIXED: tracer not to trap cut-port in system predicates (GUI).
* FIXED: Atom-GC problem: global options structured used pointers
to string of unlocked atoms.
* ENHANCED: the GUI debugger. Too much to name it here.
* INTERNAL: Moved message-activation of spy and nospy predicates to
foreign-code to make sure it gets always called.
* FIXED: Bug in recorded database, reported by Michael Heerdegen.
* FIXED: Removed trace of rl_add_history()
* FIXED: Handling of :- dynamic Module:Name/Arity in PceEmacs
cross-referencer.
* FIXED: Cleanup of code for setting break-points. Make this code
work again from PceEmacs.
* ENHANCED: prolog_to_os_filename(-Pl, +Os) to convert 8+3 filenames
to long filenames.
* ENHANCED: Allow setting spy-point from PceEmacs.
* CLEANUP: Replace some more warnings with exceptions.
* ENHANCED: library(url) for breaking down and constructing URL strings
with some new functionality. Additions by Lukas Faulstich. Also
fixed a dangling choice-point in decoding a www-encoded string.
* ENHANCED: Moved tty_size/2 from library(tty) to built-in, exploiting IOCTL
calls to fetch the terminal size when available. This make tty_size/2
return the actual values rather than constant values from the moment of
startup. Reported by Robert van Engelen.
VERSION 4.0.2
=============
* FIXED: Memory leak in PL_get_chars() using CVT_WRITE. Reported by
Marcin Golebski.
* INSTALL: export CIFLAGS=/path/to/local/include should now be
honoured correctly by configure (Lukas Faulstich)
* FIXED: absolute_file_name/3 not to trust its cache.
* ADDED: callable/1 for better compatibility.
* FIXED: $qlf_info/4 to request information on QLF files. Also turned
a couple of common warnings into proper exceptions.
* FIXED: Avoid the usage of the appearently badly supported Win32 function
GetFileInformationByHandle(), now using GetFileSize(). This fixes some
false-alarm about not being able to find the system resources.
* REMOVED: ed/1, also from the backward compatibility module. Edit/1
is the generic editing front-end.
* FIXED: writeq(a(b,c,(d,e))), reported by Joachim Katzer.
* FIXED: Memory leak in expand_file_name/2. Reported by Daniel Cote.
* FIXED: Print error-locations in files holding the ~-character.
Thanks to Mike Maxwell.
VERSION 4.0.1
=============
* PACKAGE: Many installation patches, added libraries, notably to
the XPCE subsystem.
* ADDED: Skeleton dotfiles for both Prolog and XPCE to the dotfiles
directory.
* FIXED: plrc utility for modifying archives. Thanks to Lourens
van der Meij.
* FIXED: ANSI-C incompatibility, breaking compilation using AIX cc
(Sterling Smith).
* FIXED: end_of_file issues in readln/[1,2,5] (library(readln)) and
modernised the code a bit.
* FIXED: Write out-of-range floating point numbers properly (Bart Demoen).
the defines.
While I'm here pull across a fix for LIB_SPEC that prevents libc from
being linked in when linking a shared library.
Fixes pkg/12620 from Takuya SHIOZAKI <tshiozak@netbsd.org>
hopefully in a cleaner way.
Do the same for the tk sources for tk-tclX
Both should now build.
{tcl,tk}-tclX/Makefile have an awful lot in common so someone might like to
split a lot of it out.
Don't look for moddi3 in libgcc - its not there. The configure script
still found it there though.
Add a test target.
Remove the preempt test as the test target will get stuck.
Some tests fail.
included in the perl executable. We need this to make the upcoming
xerces-perl package working.
This hack should be made obsolete by gcc-3.0, which will have a libgcc.so.
See http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2001/04/07/0000.html for more details
PLIST for pgcc. PGCC should now list all the files needed on NetBSD/sparc.
This matches a similarly motivated change in gcc/Makefile, but done
differently.
first component is now a package name+version/pattern, no more
executable/patchname/whatnot.
While there, introduce BUILD_USES_MSGFMT as shorthand to pull in
devel/gettext unless /usr/bin/msgfmt exists (i.e. on post-1.5 -current).
Patch by Alistair Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
otherwise it would understand --x-includes and --x-libraries, so don't
feed it CONFIGURE_ARGS (if xpkgwedge is installed) which will make it
puke. Instead, pass only the --host and --prefix arguments to
configure which it can understand.
Fixes PR 11040, from Sean Doran.
specification/programming.
Package provided by Paolo Torelli in pkg/11280.
Attention: Very restrictive license, to be filled out and returned in
hardcopy before usage.
support to follow. Note this in documentation.
Bump revision of libtool to nb3 and update dependencies.
Update (sort) known affected PLISTs.
Fixes pkg/12368 by Kimmo Suominen <kim@tac.nyc.ny.us>
Fixes problems with cross/* noted on tech-pkg and packages by
Chuck Cranor <chuck@research.att.com>, and
Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
using the newest PNG library won't work on system with an older one. To
prevent such problems with precompiled binary packages require at least
"png-1.0.9nb1" in all dependences.
