GNUstep now defaults to the modern, non-fragile ABI unless the fragile
option is set.
Upstream Changes in version `2.6.2'
===================================
Added standalone filesystem layout for putting everything in one
directory for easy deployment of relocatable. Other bug fixes.
Upstream Changes in version `2.6.1'
===================================
Bug fix release. Most notably to fix a problem compiling GNUstep with
clang.
Upstream Changes in version `2.6.0'
===================================
* The default filesystem layout is now the 'fhs' layout
* The default location of the configuration file changed when not
installing system-wide
* Removed the -with-system-root, -with-local-root and
-with-network-root options
* Removed obsolete variables (deprecated 4 years ago).
* A new test framework is included in the pacakge
* objc.make deprecated. Use tool.make instead
* -enable-absolute-install-paths is now the default on Darwin
* Parallel building supported using e.g. make -j 2
* Support source files in subdirectories without using a subproject.
* Support header files in sub-subdirectories.
* Batch-compile Java files (much faster).
* Fixes for building documentation.
The `GNUstep.conf' file is now viewed as the essential determination of
the install location for GNUstep libraries, tools and other files.
During configuration, this file is read, if it exists, to determine
this information. This can still be overriden with environment and
command line options, however. See the filesystem documentation in the
GNUstep Make Documentation directory for more information.
You no longer need to source GNUstep.sh in order to compile GNUstep
programs. All that is needed is the definition of GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES.
You should also have the GNUstep system tools directory in your path.
All netbsd systems are assumed to use ELF libraries. Support for the
old static libs version of netbsd was removed.
Serveral new options were added to configure to change the location
of basic dir locations and basic configuration files. Also, the help was
greatly improved. Note that -prefix=/usr/GNUstep/System no longer
works. Please use -prefix=/usr/GNUstep or
-with-system-root=/usr/GNUstep/System.
A few more fixes for cygwin are included as well as Windows resource
rules.
Support for ObjC++ has been added. You should list the ObjC++ .mm
files in the xxx_OBJCC_FILES variable, and put extra ObjC++ flags in
xxx_OBJCCFLAGS or ADDITIONAL_OBJCCFLAGS.
* New rules for building and using DLLs were implemented. Now gcc
and other tricks are used to properly export symbols, so no .def
file should be needed.
* The GNUsteprc file in $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is deprecated. See the
new GNUstep.conf file (which is not installed by default).
* Psuedo-framwork support was implemented on MingW. This essentially
involves copying the framework to several places so it can be used
without links, which Windows does not really support. There's no
other clean way to do it.
* Support for xxx_WINDRES_FILES on MinGW was implemented.
* a GNUsteprc file is now automatically created and installed in
$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, which sets the system-wide default for the
user root directory (default=~/GNUstep, which can be overriden
with the `--with-user-root' argument to configure, or by modifying
GNUsteprc after configuration.)
* make_services is not run by GNUstep.sh anymore. You must run this
manually now (see the gnustep-gui documentation).
* Palettes use a plist instead of a strings format file now for the
palette.table file.
* You can use the `--enable-native-objc-exceptions' argument to
configure to enable use of built in objc exceptions with compilers
that support it.
Changes in version `1.9.1'
==========================
* Remove `--disable-import' option
* README.Darwin for darwin/MacOSX install
* Framework version and naming clarified.
Changes in version `1.9.0'
==========================
* Support for building in a separate build dir.
* Add `--enable-strip-makefiles' option to configure
* List of classes in a framework gets written to the plist file.
Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes since the last
stable release. The major difference from 1.6.0 is that the locations
of certain directories have changed. Generally this will not cause a
problem unless your GNUstep directory is shared by multiple machines
running this and earlier (1.6.x) versions of the software.
Make now configures by default for only one system. To compile and
run GNUstep for multiple platforms from the same directory, use the
configure argument -enable-multi-platform.
* Auto-build def file for DLLs
* Work natively on MacOSX systems. Now use apple-apple-apple instead
of nx-nx-nx on OSX systems.
* More efficient checks for re-making a project.
Changes in version `1.5.1'
==========================
* Framework support rewritten, also supports multiple names.
* API change: Replace frameowork's xxx_TOOLS by xxx_COPY_INTO_DIR.
* Unified link commands between libraries and frameworks
(LIB_LINK_*).
* New 'make strings' target for localization support.
* Speed improvements.
* Doesn't try to build OSX bundle on GNUstep and vice versa.
* API change: Tools/Subproj can have resources.
* API change: TOOL_INSTALL_DIR.
