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authortgoodwin <tgoodwin>1998-07-15 14:18:32 +0000
committerToby Goodwin <toby@paccrat.org>2015-05-16 21:23:09 +0100
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ready for rc-1.5b3
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@@ -7,9 +7,9 @@ Navigator---it's a great way to find your way around code (plug!).
rc now uses GNU automake. Although I feel that automake is sticking
plaster to mend a broken leg, it has made my job as maintainer easier.
-(Errm, apart from tracking down bugs in automake itself, that is.) For
-people building rc, it's now possible (depending on your flavour of
-`make') to build in a separate directory from the source.
+(Errm, apart from tracking down bugs in automake itself, and Perl, that
+is.) For people building rc, it's now possible (depending on your
+flavour of `make') to build in a separate directory from the source.
Creeping featurism: rc now has a `-V' switch to report its version
number.
@@ -18,10 +18,15 @@ Binaries of rc-1.5b3 are typically a few kilobytes smaller than 1.5b2.
I believe this is due to improved autoconfiguration: we are now much
more careful only to include code that will be used.
-rc-1.5b3 will build under the beta18 release of CygWin32. It won't run
+rc-1.5b3 will build under the beta19 release of CygWin32. It won't run
trip.rc successfully, and does not appear to be very stable.
+The detection of signal names has been completely revised.
+
+The interaction with readline has been redone, principally to work
+around bugs in the readline library.
+
See ChangeLog for more details.
Tim Goodwin
-1998-02-19
+1998-07-15