overrides for libtool. This allows us to easily get the fixed version
from our libtool in place without having to hunt down for the specific
bugs in random places. Disable the override explicitly in clisp, which
installs a copy without explicitly depending on libtool at run time.
to address issues with NetBSD-6(and earlier)'s fontconfig not being
new enough for pango.
While doing that, also bump freetype2 dependency to current pkgsrc
version.
Suggested by tron in PR 47882
pkgsrc changes: desupport build options that are turned into module packages.
2.49 (2010-07-07)
=================
User visible changes
--------------------
* New command line option -disable-readline lets working around bugs and
incompatibilities between readline CLISP was built against and the
library actually installed.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp.html#opt-norl> for details.
* FFI:OPEN-FOREIGN-LIBRARY now accepts the :REQUIRE argument.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#dffi-open-lib> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*USER-LIB-DIRECTORY* is respected by REQUIRE
and used by "clisp-link install".
Dynamic modules are now the default build option.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/require.html> and
<http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp-link.html> for details.
* Function RENAME-FILE now accepts :IF-EXISTS argument which determines
the action when the destination exists, unless, of course, *ANSI* is T.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/file-func.html#rename-file> for details.
* The replacement value entered by the user in STORE-VALUE and USE-VALUE
restarts is now EVALuated.
* The old user variable CUSTOM:*PRINT-CLOSURE* now controls interpreted
closure output too (RFE#3001956). This is a tricky feature, read up!
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/multi-rep.html#pr-closure>.
* Module readline now supports readline 6.1.
(Older versions are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/readline-mod.html> for details.
* Module pcre now supports pcre 8.01.
(Older versions are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/pcre.html> for details.
* Module libsvm does not come with the upstream sources anymore, install
locally and pass --with-libsvm-prefix to the top-level configure instead.
All upstream versions up to 2.91 are supported.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/libsvm.html> for details.
* Module berkeley-db now supports Berkeley-DB 4.8.
(Older versions are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/berkeley-db.html> for details.
* Module postgresql now supports PostgreSQL 8.4.
(Older versions are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/postgresql.html> for details.
* Module pari has been updated to support both 64 & 32 bit platforms
with and without GMP.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/pari.html> for details.
* New functions OS:VERSION-COMPARE et al call strverscmp.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#strverscmp> for details.
* Bug fixes:
+ Do not eliminate function calls which are advertised to have
exceptional situation in unsafe code (bug#2868166).
+ Fix an internal error in DECLAIM on bad OPTIMIZE quality (bug#2868147).
+ CLEAR-INPUT now clears the EOF condition on file streams (bug#2902716).
+ When quitting on a signal, never enter the debugger (bug#2795278).
+ Respect :FULL T in DIRECTORY :WILD-INFERIORS (bug#3009966).
+ Handle TWO-WAY-STREAM and ECHO-STREAM correctly by
(SETF STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT) (bug#3020933).
+ Fix unbuffered output pipe stream initialization (bug#3024887).
* ANSI compliance:
+ Implement the ANSI issue COMPILER-DIAGNOSTICS:USE-HANDLER: use the
CL Condition System for compiler diagnostics.
+ STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE on empty CONCATENATED-STREAMs now returns NIL
because nothing can be read from such streams (bug#3014921).
Important notes
---------------
* Multiple threads of execution are now experimentally supported
(not ready for prime time yet).
Thanks to Vladimir Tzankov <vtzankov@gm...>.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/mt.html> for details.
* Module libsvm has been upgraded to the upstream version 2.89.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/libsvm.html> for details.
* Module Berkeley-DB now supports Berkeley DB 4.7.
(older versions 4.* are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/berkeley-db.html> for details.
* Module readline now supports readline 6.0.
(older versions 5.* are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/readline-mod.html> for details.
* Passing :EXECUTABLE 0 to EXT:SAVEINITMEM results in an executable
image which delegates processing of all the usual CLISP command line
options to the :INIT-FUNCTION.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/image.html> for details.
* Driver clisp accepts "-b" to print the installation directory.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp.html#opt-printlibdir> for details.
* Add file clisp.m4 so that the packages which use CLISP can check
whether it is properly installed and has the required version.
* POSIX:COPY-FILE now accepts :METHOD :HARDLINK-OR-COPY.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#copy-file> for details.
* New function POSIX:WAIT calls waitpid or wait4.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#wait> for details.
* New function EXT:TRIM-IF removes leading and trailing matches.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/seq-func-ext.html#trim-if> for
details.
* New user command "LocalSymbols" (abbreviated ":ls").
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/repl.html#debugger-main-deb-step>
for details.
* Commands "add" and "create" replace "add-module-set", "add-module-sets" and
"create-module-set" in clisp-link.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/modules.html#clisp-link> for details.
* Bug fixes:
+ Better support of :START and :END arguments in NEW-CLX. [ 2159172 ]
+ Fix LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS when *LOAD-PATHS* contains
wild pathnames (introduced in 2.47). [ 2198109 ]
+ Module NEW-CLX now has the XLIB:QUEUE-EVENT function,
implemented by Philippe Brochard <hocwp@fr...>.
+ Extend the domain of LOG to larger BIGNUMs and RATIOs. [ 1007358 ]
+ Avoid a segfault on (EXPT <HUGE> <HUGE>). [ 2807311 ]
+ Fix interaction of finalizers and weak objects. [ 1472478 ]
* ANSI compliance:
+ Implement the ANSI (IGNORE #'FUNCTION) declaration.
* New module DBUS interfaces to the D-Bus message bus system.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dbus.html> for details.
* New function EXT:PROBE-PATHNAME can figure out whether the existing
pathname refers to a file or a directory.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/files.html#probe-path> for details.
* New function EXT:CANONICALIZE lets you easily canonicalize a value
before processing it.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/macros3.html#canonicalize> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*REOPEN-OPEN-FILE* controls CLISP behavior
when opening an already open file.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/open.html#reopen> for details.
* New SETFable function OS:FILE-SIZE extends FILE-LENGTH to pathname
designators and lets you change file size.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#file-size> for details.
New function OS:USER-SHELLS returns the list of legal user shells.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#user-shells> for details.
New SETFable functions OS:HOSTID and OS:DOMAINNAME.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#hostid> for details.
* Module readline has been upgraded to readline 5.2
(older versions 5.0 and 5.1 are, of course, still supported).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/readline-mod.html> for details.
* LOAD now uses DIRECTORY only for wild *LOAD-PATHS* components, thus
speeding up the most common cases and preventing the denial-of-service
attack whereas CLISP would not start if a file with a name
incompatible with *PATHNAME-ENCODING* is present in USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME.
* ROOM now prints some GC statistics and returns the same values as GC.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/environment-enq.html#room> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*HTTP-LOG-STREAM* controls EXT:OPEN-HTTP logging.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/macros3.html#http-log-stream> for details.
* Bug fixes:
+ Comparison of floats and rationals never underflows. [ 2014262 ]
+ When failing to convert a huge LONG-FLOAT to a RATIONAL, signal an
ARITHMETIC-ERROR instead of blowing the stack. [ 2015118 ]
+ Restored TYPECODES g++ compilation [ 2015118 ], which allowed fixing
a few GC-safety bugs.
+ Fixed a segfault when signaling some UNBOUND-VARIABLE errors in some
interpreted code on MacOS X (introduced in 2.46). [ 2020784 ]
Thanks to Vladimir Tzankov <vtzankov@gmail.com>.
+ Fixed input after switching a :DOS stream to binary. [ 2022362 ]
+ Support circular objects in EQUAL and EQUALP hash-tables. [ 2029069 ]
+ Avoid C namespace pollution. [ 2146126 ]
+ Fix timeout precision in NEW-CLX. [ 2188102 ]
* ANSI compliance:
+ The sets of declaration and type names are disjoint.
+ FLET, LABELS and MACROLET respect declarations.
Removing patch-ad: Issue fixed upstream.
User visible changes:
* CLISP built natively on 64-bit platforms (i.e., with 64-bit pointers)
now has :WORD-SIZE=64 in *FEATURES*.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/features.html> for details.
* Module syscalls now offers OS:ERRNO and OS:STRERROR (for the sake of
FFI modules).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#errno> for details.
* Modules MIT-CLX and NEW-CLX export a new macro XLIB:WITH-OPEN-DISPLAY.
* Module netica has been upgraded to the Netica C API version 3.25 (from 2.15).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/netica.html> for details.
* Module libsvm has been upgraded to the upstream version 2.86.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/libsvm.html> for details.
* Bug fixes:
+ Work around the absence of tgamma() on solaris.
+ Avoid a rare segfault on SIGHUP.
+ Improve module portability to systems with non-GNU make.
+ Fix GRAY:STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and GRAY:STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE.
+ Fix the remaining bugs in special bindings in evaluated code on
TYPECODES (64-bit) platforms.
+ Fix SOCKET:SOCKET-CONNECT with timeout to a dead port.
Changes since previous (2.44.1) release:
User visible changes
--------------------
* Experimental Just-In-Time Compilation of byte-compiled closures is now
done using GNU lightning (this is a configure-time option).
Thanks to Yann Dauphin <yann-nicolas.dauphin@polymtl.ca>.
* New command-line option -lp adds directories to *LOAD-PATHS*.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/clisp.html#opt-load-paths> for details.
* New function FFI:OPEN-FOREIGN-LIBRARY allows pre-opening of shared libraries.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#dffi-open-lib> for details.
* New macro EXT:COMPILE-TIME-VALUE allows computing values at file compilation.
See <http://clisp.podval.org/impnotes/macros3.html#compile-time-value>
for details.
* New function FFI:FOREIGN-POINTER-INFO allows some introspection.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#fptr-info> for details.
* Versioned library symbols are now accessible via the :VERSION argument of
DEF-CALL-OUT and DEF-C-VAR.
Thanks to Kaz Kylheku <kkylheku@gmail.com>.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html#def-call-out> for details.
* New functions GRAY:STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and GRAY:STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE have
been added for portability reasons.
Suggested by Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov@yandex.ru>.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/gray.html#st-rd-seq> for details.
* New user variable CUSTOM:*SUPPRESS-SIMILAR-CONSTANT-REDEFINITION-WARNING*
controls whether the redefinition warning is issues when the new
constant value is visually similar to the old one.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/defconstant.html#defconstant-similar>
for details.
* REPL commands can now accept arguments.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/repl.html> for details.
* Updated the postgresql module to PostgreSQL 8.3.
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/postgresql.html> for details.
* Module syscalls now interfaces to <stdio.h> (for the sake of FFI modules).
See <http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/syscalls.html#stdio> for details.
There are others additions there also, but they are too numerous to
be enumerated here.
* Bug fixes:
+ Fix handling of quoted objects by READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE. [ 1890854 ]
+ Fix rectangle count in NEW-CLX XLIB:SET-GCONTEXT-CLIP-MASK. [ 1918017 ]
+ Fix argument handling in NEW-CLX XLIB:QUERY-COLORS. [ 1931101 ]
+ Fix compilation on systems not supporting returning void. [ 1924506 ]
+ Fix TANH floating point overflow for large floats. [ 1683394 ]
+ Avoid extra aggressive bignum overflow reporting in READ. [ 1928735 ]
+ Improved floating point number formatting. [ 1790496, 1928759 ]
+ COMPILE no longer discards MACRO doc strings. [ 1936255 ]
+ Improved accuracy of LOG on complex numbers. [ 1934968 ]
+ Fix COERCE for compound float result-types. [ 1942246 ]
+ Fix $http_proxy parsing. [ 1959436 ]
+ Fix LISTEN on buffered streams when the last character was CRLF. [ 1961475 ]
+ Cross-compilation process has been restored to its former glory,
Major changes from 2.41:
- Use pkgsrc-supplied libffcall
- Use libtool
- New PKG_OPTIONS to enable support for db4, gdbm, gtk2, fastcgi, pcre.
- lots of bugfixes
