Automatic conversion of the NetBSD pkgsrc CVS module, use with care
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Version 3.7 29-Oct-01 --------------------- 1. In updating pcretest to check change 1 of version 3.6, I screwed up. This caused pcretest, when used on the test data, to segfault. Unfortunately, this didn't happen under Solaris 8, where I normally test things. Version 3.6 23-Oct-01 --------------------- 1. Crashed with /(sens|respons)e and \1ibility/ and "sense and sensibility" if offsets passed as NULL with zero offset count. 2. The config.guess and config.sub files had not been updated when I moved to the latest autoconf. Version 3.5 15-Aug-01 --------------------- 1. Added some missing #if !defined NOPOSIX conditionals in pcretest.c that had been forgotten. 2. By using declared but undefined structures, we can avoid using "void" definitions in pcre.h while keeping the internal definitions of the structures private. 3. The distribution is now built using autoconf 2.50 and libtool 1.4. From a user point of view, this means that both static and shared libraries are built by default, but this can be individually controlled. More of the work of handling this static/shared cases is now inside libtool instead of PCRE's make file. 4. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc. 5. Upgrades to pcregrep: (i) Added long-form option names like gnu grep. (ii) Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase. (iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories. (iv) Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file. 6. pcre_exec() was referring to its "code" argument before testing that argument for NULL (and giving an error if it was NULL). 7. Upgraded Makefile.in to allow for compiling in a different directory from the source directory. 8. Tiny buglet in pcretest: when pcre_fullinfo() was called to retrieve the options bits, the pointer it was passed was to an int instead of to an unsigned long int. This mattered only on 64-bit systems. 9. Fixed typo (3.4/1) in pcre.h again. Sigh. I had changed pcre.h (which is generated) instead of pcre.in, which it its source. Also made the same change in several of the .c files. 10. A new release of gcc defines printf() as a macro, which broke pcretest because it had an ifdef in the middle of a string argument for printf(). Fixed by using separate calls to printf(). 11. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix systems, the value can be set in config.h. 12. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and likewise updated the man page. 13. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed. The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit. |
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$NetBSD: README,v 1.12 2001/06/06 19:41:05 hubertf Exp $ Welcome to the NetBSD Packages Collection ========================================= In brief, the NetBSD Packages Collection is a set of software utilities and libraries which have been ported to NetBSD. The packages collection software can retrieve the software from its home site, assuming you are connected in some way to the Internet, verify its integrity, apply any patches, configure the software for NetBSD, and build it. Any prerequisite software will also be built and installed for you. Installation and de-installation of software is managed by the packaging utilities. The packages collection is made into a tar_file every week: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/pkgsrc.tar.gz and you can sup the pkgsrc tree using the `pkgsrc' name for the collection. The pkgsrc tree is laid out in various categories, and, within that, the various packages themselves. You need to have root privileges to install packages. We are looking at ways to remove this restriction. + To install a package on your system, you need to change into the directory of the package, and type "make install". + If you've made a mistake, and decided that you don't want that package on your system, then type "pkg_delete <pkg-name>", or "make deinstall" while in the directory for the package. + To find out all the packages that you have installed on your system, type "pkg_info". + To remove the work directory, type "make clean", and "make clean-depends" will clean up any working directories for other packages that are built in the process of making your package. + Optionally, you can periodically run "make clean" from the top level pkgsrc directory. This will delete extracted and built files, but will not affect the retreived source sets in pkgsrc/distfiles. + You can set variables to customise the behaviour (where packages are installed, various options for individual packages etc), by setting variables in /etc/mk.conf. The pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example file provides some examples for customisation. The best way to find out what packages are in the collection is to move to the top-level pkgsrc directory (this will usually be /usr/pkgsrc), and type "make readme". This will create a file called README.html in the top-level pkgsrc directory, and also in all category and package directories. You can then see what packages are available, along with a short (one-line) comment about the function of the package, and a pointer to a fuller description, by using a browser like lynx (see pkgsrc/www/lynx) or Mozilla (pkgsrc/www/mozilla), or Communicator. This is also available online as ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/pkgsrc/README.html. Another way to find out what packages are in the collection is to move to the top-level pkgsrc directory and type "make index". This will create pkgsrc/INDEX which can be viewed via "make print-index | more". You can also search for particular packages or keywords via "make search key=<somekeyword>". It is also possible to use the packaging software to install pre-compiled binary packages by typing "pkg_add <URL-of-binary-pkg>". To see what binary packages are available, see: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/<release>/<arch>/All/ where <release> is the NetBSD release, and <arch> is the hardware architecture. One limitation of using binary packages provided from ftp.netbsd.org is that all mk.conf options were set to the defaults at compile time. LOCALBASE, in particular, defaults to /usr/pkg, so non-X binaries will be installed in /usr/pkg/bin, man pages will be installed in /usr/pkg/man... When a packaged tool has major compile time choices, such as support for multiple graphic toolkit libraries, the different options may be available as separate packages. For more information on the packages collection see the file Packages.txt file in the same place where you found this README, usually in the top-level pkgsrc dir. directory.