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@@ -3,9 +3,7 @@ autoconfiguration code, some of them critical. One problem (which I introduced) was found in minutes with ElectricFence: I had spent several hours failing to find it with other tools. -A few bugs in the rc code itself have been fixed. These were mostly -obscure. I could not have tracked them down so quickly without Source -Navigator---it's a great way to find your way around code (plug!). +Two bugs in rc itself, one of them trivial, were fixed. 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. @@ -36,9 +34,6 @@ Binaries of rc-1.5b4 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-1.5b4 will build under the beta20 release of CygWin32. It won't run -trip.rc successfully, and does not appear to be very stable. - Support for vrl (another lightweight "readline"-style library) was added. @@ -52,4 +47,4 @@ who'd found bugs in rc-1.5b2 that were called b3. To avoid any possibility of confusion, I have named this beta release rc-1.5b4. Tim Goodwin -1998-10-21 +1999-01-11 |