** The module (ice-9 getopt-gnu-style) has been removed.
** New module (ice-9 documentation)
** Debugging facilities for guile script are much improved.
** Improvements to garbage collector
** Speed/efficieny improvements.
** Better compliance to standards.
the m68k and mipsel ports. This address PR 9781 filed by Michael Wolfson
and also fixes recently noted bulk pkgsrc build failures on pmax.
The os version/machine type specific string is now consistently
${OPSYS}-${OS_VERSION}-${MACHINE_ARCH}
* Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency
* Lexically scoped warning categories
* Unicode and UTF-8 support
* Support for interpolating named characters
* "our" declarations
* Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals
* Improved Perl version numbering system
* New syntax for declaring subroutine attributes
* File and directory handles can be autovivified
* open() with more than two arguments
* 64-bit support
* Large file support
* Long doubles
* "more bits"
* Enhanced support for sort() subroutines
* C<sort $coderef @foo> allowed
* File globbing implemented internally
* POSIX character class syntax [: :] supported
* Improved C<qw//> operator
* pack() format 'Z' supported
* pack() format modifier '!' supported
* pack() and unpack() support counted strings
* Comments in pack() templates
* Weak references
* Binary numbers supported
* Lvalue subroutines
* Some arrows may be omitted in calls through references
* Boolean assignment operators are legal lvalues
* exists() is supported on subroutine names
* exists() and delete() are supported on array elements
* Pseudo-hashes work better
* Automatic flushing of output buffers
* Better diagnostics on meaningless filehandle operations
* Where possible, buffered data discarded from duped input filehandle
* eof() has the same old magic as <>
* binmode() can be used to set :crlf and :raw modes
* C<-T> filetest recognizes UTF-8 encoded files as "text"
* system(), backticks and pipe open now reflect exec() failure
* Improved diagnostics
* Diagnostics follow STDERR
* syswrite() ease-of-use
* Better syntax checks on parenthesized unary operators
* Bit operators support full native integer width
* Improved security features
* C<require> and C<do> may be overridden
* $^X variables may now have names longer than one character
* New variable $^C reflects C<-c> switch
* New variable $^V contains Perl version as a string
* Optional Y2K warnings
* Modules
* Pragmata
* dprofpp
* find2perl
* h2xs
* perlcc
* perldoc
* The Perl Debugger
* Simple sort() using { $a <=> $b } and the like are optimized
* Optimized assignments to lexical variables
* Faster subroutine calls
* -Dusethreads means something different
* New Configure flags
* Threadedness and 64-bitness now more daring
* Long Doubles
...
See 'perldoc perldelta' for a full list.
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.
NetBSD's "egcs" configuration files breaks the build of "libiberty"
obviously.
- Make this package work on NetBSD arm32.
- Actually add entries to package list.
Still to do:
- rename binaries to avoid conflicts with base distribution
- improve directory structure
- support more platforms
