out of date - it was based on a.out OBJECT_FMT, and added entries in the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.
User-visible changes are:
.* Incompatible changes
. + A double dot `..' should now be used instead of a colon `:'.
. + Option --force (-f) is needed to pursue recoding despite errors.
. + There is no more quoting for special characters within charsets names.
. + Auto check (`-a') and popen (`-o') options have been withdrawn.
. + Some charsets and aliases were deleted, see `Charsets & aliases' below.
.* Extended features
. + Program messages are available in localised form for many languages.
. + Long character names are available in French, if LANGUAGE is set to `fr'.
. + A new request syntax allows for recode chaining, and for surfaces.
. + Option --header-file (-h) accepts a language parameter, and Perl is new.
. + Full charset listings now show the UCS-2 value for characters.
. + Option --known=PAIRS (-k) also accepts octal and hexadecimal numbers.
. + Option --list (-l) better sorts charsets and aliases, also fully written.
. + Charset `RFC1345' implements mnemonic+ascii+38, and is now reversible.
. + HTML is not limited anymore to Latin-1, HTML 4.0 entities are supported.
.* New features
. + Euro support.
. + Updated RFC 1345 set of tables, from Keld Simonsen.
. + Some African charsets and transliterated forms.
. + Conversions for ISO 10646 and Unicode.
. + Combining or explosion of UCS-2 diacriticized characters and ligatures.
. + Implementation of surfaces, see `Surfaces & aliases' below.
. + Mixed mode for recoding only comments and strings in C sources or PO files.
. + A stand-alone recoding library gets installed, often as a shared library.
. + Option --find-subsets (-T) lists charsets which are subsets of another.
. + The library may generate testing data, and study character frequencies.
.* Charsets & aliases
. + New ISO 10646 and Unicode charsets
. - combined-UCS-2: pseudo-charset.
. - count-characters: pseudo-charset.
. - dump-with-names: pseudo-charset.
. - ISO-10646-UCS-2: aliases are UNICODE-1-1, BMP, rune and u2.
. - ISO-10646-UCS-4: aliases are 10646, ISO-10646, UCS-4 and u4.
. - UNICODE-1-1-UTF-7: aliases are TF-7 and u7.
. - UTF-8: aliases are UTF-2, UTF-FSS, FSS_UTF, TF-8 and u8.
. - UTF-16: aliases are Unicode, TF-16 and u6.
. + RFC 1345.bis matters
. - Deleted charsets
dk-us, us-dk (because of &duplicate which `recode' does not handle yet).
. - New charsets
baltic (alias is iso-ir-179); CP1250 (1250, ms-ee, windows-1250);
CP1251 (1251, ms-cyrl, windows-1251); CP1252 (1252, ms-ansi, windows-1252);
CP1253 (1253, ms-greek, windows-1253);
CP1254 (1254, ms-turk, windows-1254); CP1255 (1255, ms-hebr, windows-1255);
CP1256 (1256, ms-arab, windows-1256);
CP1257 (1257, WinBaltRim, windows-1257);
CWI (CWI-2, cp-hu); EBCDIC-IS-FRISS (friss);
GOST_19768-87 with aliases of previous GOST_19768-74;
IBM256 (256, CP256, EBCDIC-INT1); IBM875 (875, CP875, EBCDIC-Greek);
IBM1004 (1004, CP1004, os2latin1); IBM1047 (1047, CP1047);
ISO-8859-13 (ISO_8859-13:1998, iso-baltic, iso-ir-179a, l7, latin7);
ISO-8859-14 (ISO_8859-14:1998, iso-celtic, iso-ir-199, l8, latin8);
ISO-8859-15 (ISO_8859-15:1998, iso-ir-203, l9, latin9);
KOI-7; KOI-8 (GOST_19768-74); KOI8-R; KOI8-RU; KOI8-U;
macintosh_ce (macce); mac-is;
NeXTSTEP (next) yet previous `recode' had it outside RFC 1345.
. - Alias promoted to charset (with previous charset becoming alias)
ISO-646.basic (with ISO-646.basic:1983); ISO-646.irv (ISO-646.irv:1983);
ISO_5427-ext (ISO_5427:1981); ISO_5428 (ISO_5428:1980);
ISO-8859-1 (ISO_8859-1:1987); ISO-8859-2 (ISO_8859-2:1987);
ISO-8859-3 (ISO_8859-3:1988); ISO-8859-4 (ISO_8859-4:1988);
ISO-8859-5 (ISO_8859-5:1988); ISO-8859-6 (ISO_8859-6:1987);
ISO-8859-7 (ISO_8859-7:1987); ISO-8859-8 (ISO_8859-8:1988);
ISO-8859-9 (ISO_8859-9:1989); ISO-8859-10 (latin6);
NC_NC00-10 (NC_NC00-10:81); sami (latin-lap).
. - New aliases
037 (for charset IBM037); 038 (IBM038); 273 (IBM273); 274 (IBM274);
275 (IBM275); 278 (IBM278); 280 (IBM280); 281 (IBM281); 284 (IBM284);
285 (IBM285); 290 (IBM290); 297 (IBM297); 367 (ANSI_X3.4-1968);
420 (IBM420); 423 (IBM423); 424 (IBM424); 500, 500V1 (IBM500);
819 (ISO-8859-1); 864 (IBM864); 868 (IBM868); 870 (IBM870);
871 (IBM871); 880 (IBM880); 891 (IBM891); 903 (IBM903); 905 (IBM905);
912, CP912, IBM912 (ISO-8859-2); 918 (IBM918); 1026 (IBM1026);
ECMA-113, ECMA-113:1986 (ECMA-Cyrillic); GOST_19768-74 (KOI8);
ISO_8859-N (ISO-8859-N) for N = 1 through 10 and 13 through 15;
ISO_8859-10:1993 (ISO-8869-10); iso-ir-170 (INVARIANT);
KOI8_L2 (CSN_369103); pclatin2, pcl2 (IBM852); SS636127 (SEN_850200_B).
. + New African charsets
. - AFRL1-101-BPI_OCIL: aliases are t-francais and t-fra.
. - AFRFUL-102-BPI_OCIL: aliases are bambara, bra, ewondo and fulfulde.
. - AFRFUL-103-BPI_OCIL: aliases are t-bambara, t-bra, t-ewondo and t-fulfulde.
. - AFRLIN-104-BPI_OCIL: aliases are lingala, lin, sango and wolof.
. - AFRLIN-105-BPI_OCIL: aliases are t-lingala, t-lin, t-sango and t-wolof.
. + Extra miscellaneous charsets
. - KEYBCS2, Kamenicky.
. - CORK, T1.
. - KOI-8_CS2.
. + New HTML pseudo-charsets
. - HTML_1.1: alias is h1.
. - HTML_2.0: aliases are RFC 1866, 1866 and h2.
. - HTML-i18n: alias is RFC 2070.
. - HTML_3.2: reimplemented; alias is h3.
. - HTML_4.0: aliases are h4, HTML and h.
. - Deleted aliases: HTF, 8859, ISO 8859, Entities, SGML, WWW, w3.
.* Surfaces & aliases
. + New MIME encoding surfaces
. - Base64: aliases are 64 and b64.
. - Quoted-Printable: aliases are qp and Quote-Printable.
. + New permutation surfaces
. - 21-Permutation: alias is swabytes.
. - 4321-Permutation.
. + New end of line surfaces
. - CR.
. - CR-LF: alias is cl.
. + New (fully reversible) dump surfaces
. - Decimal-1: aliases are d and d1.
. - Decimal-2: alias is d2.
. - Decimal-4: alias is d4.
. - Hexadecimal-1: aliases are x and x1.
. - Hexadecimal-2: alias is x2.
. - Hexadecimal-4: alias is x4.
. - Octal-1: aliases are o and o1.
. - Octal-2: alias is o2.
. - Octal-4: alias is o4.
. + New miscellaneous surfaces.
. - data, test7, test8, test15, test16.
