contrib/libreadline/CHANGELOG

   1 [Readline-specific changelog.  Descriptions of changes to the source are
   2  found in the bash changelog.]
   3
   4                                     6/9
   5                                     ---
   6 Makefile.in
   7         - quote value of ${INSTALL_DATA} when passing it to makes in
   8           subdirectories
   9
  10                                     7/1
  11                                     ---
  12 Makefile.in
  13         - don't pass INSTALL_DATA to a make in the `doc' subdirectory; let
  14           autoconf set the value itself in the Makefile
  15         - removed a stray `-' before $(RANLIB) in the `install' recipe
  16
  17 doc/Makefile.in
  18         - add a VPATH assignment so the documentation is not remade if it's
  19           already up-to-date in the distribution
  20
  21 configure.in
  22         - call AC_SUBST(LOCAL_LDFLAGS), since Makefile.in contains
  23           @LOCAL_LDFLAGS@
  24
  25                                     7/9
  26                                     ---
  27
  28 config.h.in
  29         - add define lines for STRUCT_WINSIZE_IN_SYS_IOCTL and
  30           STRUCT_WINSIZE_IN_TERMIOS
  31
  32 configure.in
  33         - call BASH_STRUCT_WINSIZE to look for the definition of
  34           `struct winsize'
  35
  36                                    7/17
  37                                    ----
  38 configure.in
  39         - call AC_MINIX
  40
  41 config.h.in
  42         - add define line for AC_MINIX
  43
  44                                    7/18
  45                                    ----
  46 Makefile.in
  47         - add `install-shared' and `uninstall-shared' targets
  48
  49                                     8/4
  50                                     ---
  51 Makefile.in
  52         - install and uninstall libhistory.a in the `install' and
  53           `uninstall' targets
  54
  55                                     9/4
  56                                     ---
  57 configure.in
  58         - bumped LIBVERSION up to 2.1.1, indicating that this is patch
  59           level 1 to release 2.1
  60
  61
  62                                    9/16
  63                                    ----
  64 Makefile.in
  65         - `make distclean' now descends into the `examples' subdir
  66
  67 doc/Makefile.in
  68         - the `distclean' and `maintainer-clean' targets should remove
  69           Makefile
  70
  71 examples/Makefile.in
  72         - added the various clean targets
  73
  74                                     4/2
  75                                     ---
  76 configure.in
  77         - bumped LIBVERSION up to 2.2
  78
  79                                    4/18
  80                                    ----
  81 [readline-2.2 released]
  82
  83                                    4/20
  84                                    ----
  85 Makefile.in
  86         - make `libhistory.a' a dependency of `install'
  87         - fixed a typo in the recipe for `install' that copied libreadline.a
  88           to libhistory.old right after installing it
  89
  90                                    4/27
  91                                    ----
  92 doc/Makefile.in
  93         - install {readline,history}.info out of the source directory if
  94           they are not found in the current (build) directory -- only an
  95           issue if the libraries are built in a different directory than
  96           the source directory
  97
  98                                     5/1
  99                                     ---
 100 support/shobj-conf
 101         - script from the bash distribution to do shared object and library
 102           configuration
 103
 104 shlib/Makefile.in
 105         - new directory and makefile to handle building shared versions of
 106           libreadline and libhistory, controlled by support/shobj-conf
 107
 108                                     5/7
 109                                     ---
 110 doc/Makefile.in
 111         - set SHELL to /bin/sh, rather than relying on make to be correct
 112
 113                                    5/14
 114                                    ----
 115 savestring.c
 116         - new file, moved from shell.c, for backwards compatibility
 117
 118 Makefile.in, shlib/Makefile.in
 119         - make sure savestring.c is compiled and added to libreadline and
 120           libhistory
 121
 122 [THERE ARE NO MORE #ifdef SHELL LINES IN THE C SOURCE FILES.]
 123
 124                                    5/15
 125                                    ----
 126 README
 127         - updated description of shared library creation for the new scheme
 128
 129 [THERE ARE NO MORE #ifdef SHELL LINES IN ANY OF THE SOURCE FILES.]
 130
 131 Makefile.in
 132         - bumped SHLIB_MAJOR up to 4 since we've augmented the library
 133           API
 134         - rlconf.h is now one of the installed headers, so applications can
 135           find out whether things like vi-mode are available in the installed
 136           libreadline
 137
 138                                    5/20
 139                                    ----
 140 configure.in
 141         - changed RL_LIBRARY_VERSION to 4.0 to match the version of the
 142           installed shared libraries
 143
 144                                     6/5
 145                                     ---
 146 rlstdc.h
 147         - new file
 148
 149 Makefile.in
 150         - rlstdc.h is now one of the installed headers
 151
 152                                     8/3
 153                                     ---
 154 shlib/Makefile.in
 155         - made the suffix rule that creates xx.so from xx.c write the
 156           compiler output to `a.o', which is then mv'd to xx.so, because
 157           some compilers (Sun WSpro 4.2, for example) don't allow any
 158           suffixes other than `.o' for `cc -c' (not even `a.out')
 159
 160                                    9/15
 161                                    ----
 162
 163 Makefile.in
 164         - AR and ARFLAGS are now substituted by configure, used in recipes
 165           that build the libraries
 166
 167 configure.in
 168         - use AC_CHECK_PROG to check for ar
 169         - set ARFLAGS if it has not already been set in the environment
 170
 171                                    10/5
 172                                    ----
 173 Makefile.in
 174         - removed savestring.o from object file list
 175
 176                                    10/28
 177                                    -----
 178 shlib/Makefile.in
 179         - don't use a fixed filename in the .c.so suffix rule to avoid
 180           problems with parallel makes
 181
 182                                    12/21
 183                                    -----
 184 support/shlib-install
 185         - new script to install shared readline and history libraries
 186
 187 shlib/Makefile.in
 188         - changed to call shlib-install for install and uninstall targets
 189
 190 [readline-4.0-beta1 frozen]
 191
 192                                    12/22
 193                                    -----
 194 configure.in
 195         - call AC_SUBST for SHOBJ_XLDFLAGS and SHLIB_LIBS
 196
 197 shlib/Makefile.in
 198         - SHOBJ_XLDFLAGS and SHLIB_LIBS are now substituted by configure
 199         - add $(SHLIB_LIBS) at end of command line that builds the shared
 200           libraries (currently needed only by AIX 4.2)
 201
 202                                    12/31
 203                                    -----
 204 MANIFEST, MANIFEST.doc
 205         - the TOC html files are no longer generated and no longer part of
 206           the distribution
 207
 208                                  2/18/1999
 209                                  ---------
 210 configure.in
 211         - set MAKE_SHELL to /bin/sh and substitute into the Makefiles
 212
 213 Makefile.in,{doc,examples,shlib}/Makefile.in
 214         - set SHELL from @MAKE_SHELL@
 215
 216 [readline-4.0 released]
 217
 218                                    3/11
 219                                    ----
 220 doc/Makefile.in
 221         - removed references to HTMLTOC, since separate HTML table-of-contents
 222           files are no longer created
 223
 224 examples/Makefile.in
 225         - remove `*.exe' in clean target for MS-DOS
 226
 227 Makefile.in
 228         - make `readline' target depend on ./libreadline.a
 229         - configure now substitutes TERMCAP_LIB into Makefile.in
 230         - use ${TERMCAP_LIB} instead of -ltermcap in recipe for `readline'
 231         - clean target now removes readline and readline.exe in case they
 232           get built
 233
 234 configure.in
 235         - use `pwd.exe' to set BUILD_DIR on MS-DOS DJGPP
 236
 237                                    3/15
 238                                    ----
 239 support/shlib-install
 240         - Irix 5.x and Irix 6.x should install shared libraries like Solaris 2
 241         - changes for installing on hp-ux 1[01].x
 242
 243                                    3/23
 244                                    ----
 245 configure.in
 246         - make sure that the $CC argument to shobj-conf is quoted
 247
 248                                     4/8
 249                                     ---
 250
 251 xmalloc.h, rlprivate.h, rlshell.h
 252         - new files
 253
 254 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 255         - add dependencies on xmalloc.h, rlshell.h
 256         - add xmalloc.h, rlprivate.h, rlshell.h to list of header files
 257
 258 MANIFEST
 259         - add xmalloc.h, rlprivate.h, rlshell.h
 260
 261                                     4/9
 262                                     ---
 263 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 264         - add dependencies on rlprivate.h
 265
 266                                    4/13
 267                                    ----
 268 doc/Makefile.in
 269         - add variable, PSDVI, which is the desired resolution of the
 270           generated postscript files.  Set to 300 because I don't have
 271           any 600-dpi printers
 272         - set LANGUAGE= before calling makeinfo, so messages are in English
 273         - add rluserman.{info,dvi,ps,html} to appropriate variables
 274         - add rules to create rluserman.{info,dvi,ps,html}
 275         - install and uninstall rluserman.info, but don't update the directory
 276           file in $(infodir) yet
 277
 278 MANIFEST
 279         - add doc/rluserman.{texinfo,info,dvi,ps,html}
 280
 281                                    4/30
 282                                    ----
 283 configure.in
 284         - updated library version to 4.1
 285
 286                                     5/3
 287                                     ---
 288 configure.in
 289         - SHLIB_MAJOR and SHLIB_MINOR shared library version numbers are
 290           constructed from $LIBRARY_VERSION and substituted into Makefiles
 291
 292                                     5/5
 293                                     ---
 294 support/shlib-install
 295         - OSF/1 installs shared libraries like Solaris
 296
 297 Makefile.in
 298         - broke the header file install and uninstall into two new targets:
 299           install-headers and uninstall-headers
 300         - install and uninstall depend on install-headers and uninstall-headers
 301           respectively
 302         - changed install-shared and uninstall-shared targets to depend on
 303           install-headers and uninstall-headers, respectively, so users may
 304           choose to install only the shared libraries.  I'm not sure about
 305           the uninstall one yet -- maybe it should check whether or not
 306           the static libraries are installed and not remove the header files
 307           if they are
 308
 309                                     9/3
 310                                     ---
 311 configure.in, config.h.in
 312         - added test for memmove (for later use)
 313         - changed version to 4.1-beta1
 314
 315                                    9/13
 316                                    ----
 317 examples/rlfe.c
 318         - Per Bothner's `rlfe' readline front-end program
 319
 320 examples/Makefile.in
 321         - added rules to build rlfe
 322
 323                                    9/21
 324                                    ----
 325 support/shlib-install
 326         - changes to handle FreeBSD-3.x elf or a.out shared libraries, which
 327           have different semantics and need different naming conventions
 328
 329                                  1/24/2000
 330                                  ---------
 331 doc/Makefile.in
 332         - remove *.bt and *.bts on `make clean'
 333
 334                                     2/4
 335                                     ---
 336
 337
 338 configure.in
 339         - changed LIBVERSION to 4.1-beta5
 340
 341                                  3/17/2000
 342                                  ---------
 343 [readline-4.1 released]
 344
 345                                    3/23
 346                                    ----
 347 Makefile.in
 348         - remove the `-t' argument to ranlib in the install recipe; some
 349           ranlibs don't have it and attempt to create a file named `-t'
 350
 351                                    3/27
 352                                    ----
 353 support/shlib-install
 354         - install shared libraries unwritable by anyone on HP-UX
 355         - changed symlinks to relative pathnames on all platforms
 356
 357 shlib/Makefile.in
 358         - added missing `includedir' assignment, substituted by configure
 359
 360 Makefile.in
 361         - added missing @SET_MAKE@ so configure can set $MAKE appropriately
 362
 363 configure.in
 364         - add call to AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
 365
 366                                    8/30
 367                                    ----
 368 shlib/Makefile.in
 369         - change the soname bound into the shared libraries, so it includes
 370           only the major version number.  If it includes the minor version,
 371           programs depending on it must be rebuilt (which may or may not be
 372           a bad thing)
 373
 374                                     9/6
 375                                     ---
 376 examples/rlfe.c
 377         - add -l option to log input and output (-a option appends to logfile)
 378         - add -n option to set readline application name
 379         - add -v, -h options for version and help information
 380         - change a few things because getopt() is now used to parse arguments
 381
 382                                    9/12
 383                                    ----
 384 support/shlib-install
 385         - fix up the libname on HPUX 11
 386
 387                                    10/18
 388                                    -----
 389 configure.in
 390         - changed library version to 4.2-alpha
 391
 392                                    10/30
 393                                    -----
 394 configure.in
 395         - add -fsigned-char to LOCAL_CFLAGS for Linux running on the IBM
 396           S/390
 397
 398 Makefile.in
 399         - added new file, rltypedefs.h, installed by default with `make install'
 400
 401                                    11/2
 402                                    ----
 403 compat.c
 404         - new file, with backwards-compatibility function definitions
 405
 406 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 407         - make sure that compat.o/compat.so are built and linked apppropriately
 408
 409 support/shobj-conf
 410         - picked up bash version, which means that shared libs built on
 411           linux and BSD/OS 4.x will have an soname that does not include
 412           the minor version number
 413
 414                                    11/13
 415                                    -----
 416 examples/rlfe.c
 417         - rlfe can perform filename completion for relative pathnames in the
 418           inferior process's context if the OS supports /proc/PID/cwd (linux
 419           does it OK, Solaris is slightly warped, none of the BSDs have it)
 420
 421                                 11/17/2000
 422                                 ----------
 423 [readline-4.2-alpha released]
 424
 425                                    11/27
 426                                    -----
 427 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 428         - added dependencies for rltypedefs.h
 429
 430 shlib/Makefile.in
 431         - changed dependencies on histlib.h to $(topdir)/histlib.h
 432
 433                                    1/22
 434                                    ----
 435 configure.in
 436         - changed release version to 4.2-beta
 437
 438                                     2/2
 439                                     ---
 440 examples/Makefile.in
 441         - build histexamp as part of the examples
 442
 443                                     2/5
 444                                     ---
 445 doc/Makefile.in
 446         - don't remove the dvi, postscript, html, info, and text `objects'
 447           on a `make distclean', only on a `make maintainer-clean'
 448
 449                                     3/6
 450                                     ---
 451 doc/history.{0,3}, doc/history_3.ps
 452         - new manual page for history library
 453
 454 doc/Makefile.in
 455         - rules to install and uninstall history.3 in ${man3dir}
 456         - rules to build history.0 and history_3.ps
 457
 458                                     4/2
 459                                     ---
 460 configure.in
 461         - changed LIBVERSION to `4.2'
 462
 463                                     4/5
 464                                     ---
 465 [readline-4.2 frozen]