The Electric VLSI Design System 6.07
I am pleased to announce that version 6.07 of the Electric VLSI Design
System is available. Visit us at www.staticfreesoft.com for downloads and
other products. As always, the source code is free. This release has many
minor improvements and some notable major features:
> A much faster Design Rule Checker.
> A new Antenna-Rules checker.
> A Mac OS/X support using Qt.
Happy designing!
Attention non-English speakers! I'd like your help to spread the word. If
you can translate a single Static Free Software web page into your
language, we can tell others about Electric. The page is
http://www.staticfreesoft.com/homepage.html Let me know if you can
help. Also check out the international socket icons in the "About
Electric" dialog!
-Steven Rubin
P.S. Users who have paid for binaries may download updates at the same location.
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Mailutils 0.2
The mailutils team is pleased to announce the 0.2 release of GNU Mailutils.
The release is available by anonymous FTP from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/mailutils/mailutils-0.2.tar.gz
and from mirrors worldwide -- see <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>;.
The md5 checksums of the files are:
6d173c75294fe00501e75f363db5a79b mailutils-0.2.tar.gz/
2bfe8b41089af528cd91abacd867edad mailutils-0.2.tar.gz.sig/
GNU Mailutils is a collection of utilities for handling electronic mail.
It contains a series of useful mail clients and servers built around
the single core library.
Specifically, the package contains a pop3 server, and an imap4
server. It also provides a POSIX `mailx' client, and a collection of
other tools. All programs are capable of reading and storing mail in a
variety of formats.
More information about the package is available from the following
locations:
http://www.gnu.org/directory/mailutils.html
http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils
Please email bugs or suggestions to <[email protected]>.
New in this release:
* mail utility: Supports `editheaders' boolean variable. When sending
an outgoing message correctly adds `In-Reply-To' and `References'
headers.
New command `setenv' allows to set and examine environment
variables.
* New library libsieve supports Sieve language as described in
RFC 3028 and provides a mechanism for dynamic loading of
user-defined actions, tests and comparators.
* sieve: Supports full set of actions and tests. Addition of new
commands is possible on platforms supporting dynamic linking.
* mail.local is now able to execute arbitrary sieve scripts before
final delivery.
* Added new utility mailutils-config. The utility prints gcc command
line options needed for compiling and linking an application against
mailutils.
Regards,
Sergey
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GDB 5.3
GDB 5.3 released!
Version 5.3 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via anonymous
FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for C, C++, Pascal and many other
languages. GDB can target (i.e. debug programs running on) dozens of
different processor architectures, and GDB itself can run on most
popular Unix and Microsoft Windows variants.
You can download GDB from Project GNU's FTP server in the directory:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdb
The previous version, 5.2.1, was released roughly 5 months ago; and in
that time several new features have been added and many bugs have been
fixed. The details are below. In addition, a number of late breaking
problems have been identified and they are also mentioned below.
The vital stats:
-rw-r--r-- 1 cagney cagney 14707600 Dec 12 00:06 gdb-5.3.tar.gz/
The md5sum checksum:
1e8566325f222edfbdd93e40c6ae921b gdb-5.3.tar.gz/
There is a web page for GDB at:
http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/
That page includes information about GDB mailing lists (an
announcement mailing list, developers discussion lists, etc.), details
on how to access GDB's CVS repository, locations for development
snapshots, preformatted documentation, and links to related
information around the net. We will put errata notes and
host-specific tips for this release on-line as any problems come up.
All mailing lists archives are also browsable via the web.
Many people have contributed to this release. Thanks to everybody for
the help!
Keep those fixes and improvements coming in! (Send them to
[email protected])
Andrew Cagney
on behalf of the GDB Developers.
*** Changes in GDB 5.3:
* GNU/Linux shared library multi-threaded performance improved.
When debugging a multi-threaded application on GNU/Linux, GDB now uses
`/proc', in preference to `ptrace' for memory reads. This may result
in an improvement in the start-up time of multi-threaded, shared
library applications when run under GDB. One GDB user writes: ``loads
shared libs like mad''.
* ``gdbserver'' now supports multi-threaded applications on some targets
Support for debugging multi-threaded applications which use
the GNU/Linux LinuxThreads package has been added for
arm*-*-linux*-gnu*, i[3456]86-*-linux*-gnu*, mips*-*-linux*-gnu*,
powerpc*-*-linux*-gnu*, and sh*-*-linux*-gnu*.
* GDB now supports C/C++ preprocessor macros.
GDB now expands preprocessor macro invocations in C/C++ expressions,
and provides various commands for showing macro definitions and how
they expand.
The new command `macro expand EXPRESSION' expands any macro
invocations in expression, and shows the result.
The new command `show macro MACRO-NAME' shows the definition of the
macro named MACRO-NAME, and where it was defined.
Most compilers don't include information about macros in the debugging
information by default. In GCC 3.1, for example, you need to compile
your program with the options `-gdwarf-2 -g3'. If the macro
information is present in the executable, GDB will read it.
* Multi-arched targets.
DEC Alpha (partial) alpha*-*-*
DEC VAX (partial) vax-*-*
NEC V850 v850-*-*
National Semiconductor NS32000 (partial) ns32k-*-*
Motorola 68000 (partial) m68k-*-*
Motorola MCORE mcore-*-*
* New targets.
Fujitsu FRV architecture added by Red Hat frv*-*-*
* New native configurations
Alpha NetBSD alpha*-*-netbsd*
SH NetBSD sh*-*-netbsdelf*
MIPS NetBSD mips*-*-netbsd*
UltraSPARC NetBSD sparc64-*-netbsd*
* OBSOLETE configurations and files
Configurations that have been declared obsolete in this release have
been commented out. Unless there is activity to revive these
configurations, the next release of GDB will have their sources
permanently REMOVED.
Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-*
OS/9000 i[34]86-*-os9k
IBM AIX PS/2 i[3456]86-*-aix
Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf*
Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V m88k-motorola-sysv or delta88
Argonaut Risc Chip (ARC) arc-*-*
i386 running Mach 3.0 i[3456]86-*-mach3*
i386 running Mach i[3456]86-*-mach*
i386 running OSF/1 i[3456]86-osf1mk
HP/Apollo 68k Family m68*-apollo*-sysv*,
m68*-apollo*-bsd*,
m68*-hp-bsd*, m68*-hp-hpux*
I960 with MON960 i960-*-coff
* OBSOLETE languages
CHILL, a Pascal like language used by telecommunications companies.
* REMOVED configurations and files
AMD 29k family via UDI a29k-amd-udi, udi29k
A29K VxWorks a29k-*-vxworks
AMD 29000 embedded, using EBMON a29k-none-none
AMD 29000 embedded with COFF a29k-none-coff
AMD 29000 embedded with a.out a29k-none-aout
testsuite/gdb.hp/gdb.threads-hp/ directory
* New command "set max-user-call-depth <nnn>"
This command allows the user to limit the call depth of user-defined
commands. The default is 1024.
* Changes in FreeBSD/i386 native debugging.
Support for the "generate-core-file" has been added.
* New commands "dump", "append", and "restore".
These commands allow data to be copied from target memory
to a bfd-format or binary file (dump and append), and back
from a file into memory (restore).
* Improved "next/step" support on multi-processor Alpha Tru64.
The previous single-step mechanism could cause unpredictable problems,
including the random appearance of SIGSEGV or SIGTRAP signals. The use
of a software single-step mechanism prevents this.
Known problems in GDB 5.3
See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/
*-*-freebsd*
---------------
Due to a kernel bug (kern/35175), detaching from an attached process
will very likely cause the process to be stop or die with a Trace/BPT
trap.
i386-*-freebsd[34]*
-------------------
There is a bug (bin/41671) in FreeBSD's gcc that causes it to emit bad
debug information when using the stabs format (which is the default).
As a result GDB tends to place breakpoints on functions before the
function prologue, and information about function parameters and local
variables is lost. In earlier versions of GDB the effects were rather
limited, but starting with GDB 5.3 the influence is much more
prominent. As a workaround, compile your code with -gdwarf-2.
hppa2.0-hp-hpux10.20
--------------------
gdb/487: The top level make files used to build GDB are not compatible
with HP/UX make. As a workaround, use GNU make.
gdb/486: The HP/UX C compiler defaults to K&R mode but GDB only builds
with an ISO C compiler. The top level configuration incorrectly sets
CC to `cc' instead of `cc -Ae'. As a workaround, the correct compiler
can be specified as part of the configuration vis:
$ 'CC=cc -Ae' ./configure
i386-*-freebsd4.4*
------------------
gdb/455: GDB doesn't build on a FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE system. The
problem is still being investigated.
alpha*-*-osf*
-------------
gdb/816: When building GDB with GCC 3.0.1, GDB is unable to load a core
file properly. It generates several errors and warnings regarding
unhandled core file section types, incorrect endianness, the failure to
load the registers. Are also incorrectly reported: The program name, the
cause of the program death, and the call stack at the moment of the
death. This problem has been reported on alpha-osf4.0f and alpha-osf5.1a.
To work-around the problem, add -D__digital__ to the CFLAGS when
building GDB vis:
$ make CFLAGS='-O2 -D__digital__'
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GNU Anubis 3.6.2
GNU Anubis 3.6.2 has been released!
You can download it from:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/anubis/anubis-3.6.2.tar.gz
md5sum: 9e705e38cafe4a57025a6ad89fd73226
sha1sum: 1b03bad86cde413ec2dd5f88f50ac9b3070db323
Overview:
GNU Anubis is an outgoing mail processor. It goes between the MUA (Mail User
Agent) and the MTA (Mail Transport Agent), and can perform on the fly various
sorts of processing and conversion on the outgoing mail in accord with the
sender's specified rules, based on a highly configurable regular expressions
system. It operates as a proxy server, independently from mail user agents.
http://www.gnu.org/software/anubis/
Changes:
* URGENCY: HIGH. Some serious bugs have been fixed (since 3.6.1).
* Default daemon's port number is now 24 (private mail system).
* The MODIFY keyword has been hugely improved. Its syntax has been
changed, so please read the GNU Anubis Manual before using it.
* The DEBUG mode has been improved (now it's also built-in by default).
* The boundary-search code has been fixed (for e.g. MS Outlook).
* Some minor changes and fixes in the documentation have been made.
The `anubis.1' man page will not be maintained anymore. The full
documentation is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
* The Free Documentation License has been upgraded from 1.1 to 1.2.
* The `msg2smtp.pl' Perl script (revision 1.5) has been fixed.
* Switched to GNU Autoconf 2.57 and GNU Automake 1.7.2.
Kind regards,
Wojciech Polak
