We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4.4 (FINAL), a
bugfix release of Python 2.4, on October 18, 2006.
Important: 2.4.4 includes a security fix (PSF-2006-001) for the
repr() of unicode strings in wide unicode builds (UCS-4) [does not
affect pkgsrc]
Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being
added. At least 80 bugs have been squished since Python 2.4.3,
including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by with the
Coverity and Klocwork static analysis tools. We'd like to offer
our thanks to both these firms for making this available for open
source projects - see their websites if you're interested.
The NIS module is not available in that case.
Call the regen script with RUNSHARED, so that it finds libpython.so,
even in the DESTDIR case.
XXX The call to regen should be moved to the build phase.
and add a new helper target and script, "show-buildlink3", that outputs
a listing of the buildlink3.mk files included as well as the depth at
which they are included.
For example, "make show-buildlink3" in fonts/Xft2 displays:
zlib
fontconfig
iconv
zlib
freetype2
expat
freetype2
Xrender
renderproto
only build certain modules if the platform is *not* 64-bit. Correct
the PLIST for those cases. This should fix the build on non-64bit,
non-x86 platforms, e.g. powerpc.
on DragonFly. Since that version is used e.g. as part of the file name
for python eggs, it makes handling easier to match normal pkgsrc
platform policy. Bump revisions of all Python packages.
Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode, no new features are being added. At
least 50 bugs have been squashed since Python 2.4.2, including a number of
bugs and potential bugs found by Coverity.
RECOMMENDED is removed. It becomes ABI_DEPENDS.
BUILDLINK_RECOMMENDED.foo becomes BUILDLINK_ABI_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS.foo becomes BUILDLINK_API_DEPENDS.foo.
BUILDLINK_DEPENDS does not change.
IGNORE_RECOMMENDED (which defaulted to "no") becomes USE_ABI_DEPENDS
which defaults to "yes".
Added to obsolete.mk checking for IGNORE_RECOMMENDED.
I did not manually go through and fix any aesthetic tab/spacing issues.
I have tested the above patch on DragonFly building and packaging
subversion and pkglint and their many dependencies.
I have also tested USE_ABI_DEPENDS=no on my NetBSD workstation (where I
have used IGNORE_RECOMMENDED for a long time). I have been an active user
of IGNORE_RECOMMENDED since it was available.
As suggested, I removed the documentation sentences suggesting bumping for
"security" issues.
As discussed on tech-pkg.
I will commit to revbump, pkglint, pkg_install, createbuildlink separately.
Note that if you use wip, it will fail! I will commit to pkgsrc-wip
later (within day).
not part of the std. Python install to work again.
Secondly, add a patch from Christoph Ludwig (
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1324762&group_id=5470&atid=305470
)
which contains the following changes (from the SourceForge post):
1) The configure option --with-cxx is renamed
--with-cxx-main. This was done to avoid surprising the user
by the changed meaning. Furthermore, it is now possible
that CXX has a different value than provided by
--with-cxx-main, so the old name would have been
confusing.
2) The compiler used to translate python's main() function is
stored in the configure / Makefile variable MAINCC. By
default, MAINCC=$(CC). If --with-cxx-main is given (without
an appended compiler name), then MAINCC=$(CXX). If
--with-cxx-main=<compiler> is on the configure command
line, then MAINCC=<compiler>. Additionally, configure sets
CXX=<compiler> unless CXX was already set on the
configure command line.
3) The command used to link the python executable is (as
before) stored in LINKCC. By default, LINKCC='$(PURIFY)
$(MAINCC)', i.e. the linker front-end is the compiler used to
translate main(). If necessary, LINKCC can be set on the
configure command line in which case it won't be altered.
4) If CXX is not set by the user (on the command line or via
--with-cxx-main), then configure tries several likely C++
compiler names. CXX is assigned the first name that refers
to a callable program in the system. (CXX is set even if
python is built with a C compiler only, so distutils can build
C++ extensions.)
5) Modules/ccpython.cc is no longer used and can be
removed.
Python 2.4.2 is a bugfix release of Python 2.4 - Python 2.4 is now in
bugfix-only mode, no new features are being added. More than 60 bugs have
been squashed since Python 2.4.1, including bugs that prevented Python working
properly on 64 bit AIX and HP/UX.
For a detailed list of changes see:
http://python.org/2.4.2/NEWS.html
