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GNU Automake 1.7.8

We’re pleased to announce the release of Automake 1.7.8.

Automake is a tool for automatically generating `Makefile.in’s
suitable for use with Autoconf, compliant with the GNU Makefile
standards, and portable to various make implementations.

This is a bug fix release. The list of bug fixes is
appended.

You can find the new release here:

ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.8.tar.bz2

ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/automake/automake-1.7.8.tar.gz

Within a few days it should also appear at

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.8.tar.bz2

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/automake/automake-1.7.8.tar.gz

Finally here are the MD5 checksums:

8a934bdfb1d30cbeeb5f91af0970017c automake-1.7.8.tar.bz2
bd730a7eddcf6fd26677bf01dd937bc5 automake-1.7.8.tar.gz

This release is also GPG signed. You can download the signatures
by appending “.sig” to the URLs.

Please report bugs to <[email protected]>.

Bugs fixed in 1.7.8:

  • Remove spurious blank lines in cleaning rules introduced in
    1.7.7.
  • Fix detection of Debian’s install-info, broken since version
    1.5. (Debian bug #213524).
  • Honor -module if it appears in AM_LDFLAGS (i.e., relax name
    checking) This was only done for libfoo_LDFLAGS and LDFLAGS in
    previous versions.

GNU Gengetopt 2.11

GNU Gengetopt 2.11 has been released. It is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/
and mirrors of that site (see list of mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).

GNU Gengetopt generates a C function that uses getopt_long
function to parse the command line options, validate them and fill
a struct.

Version 2.11

  • fixed a small bug in the generated config file parser (reported
    by Karsten Reincke <[email protected]>)
  • default values work for multiple options (reported by Christian
    Richter <[email protected]>)
  • multiple options can be specified also without a short
    form
  • output of –help is wrapped (thanks to Michael Hagemann
    <[email protected]>)
  • “typestr” allows to specify what a type of an option represents
    (e.g., FILENAME instead of STRING) (thanks to Michael Hagemann
    <[email protected]>)
  • added sections for options

Visit the Gengetopt home page at
http://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html.

Anonymous CVS access is available. Please visit http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gengetopt/
where you can find detailed descriptions of how to access the CVS
(read-only). Release-candidate versions are available through
CVS.

Bug reports should go to [email protected].

The following mailing lists are available:

if you want to subscribe to a mailing list just go to the URL
and follow the instructions or just send me an e-mail.

cheers

Lorenzo

GNU Source-highlight 1.8

GNU Source-highlight 1.8 has been released. It is available from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/source-highlight/
and mirrors of that site (see list of mirror sites at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html).

GNU Source-highlight, given a source file, produces a document
with syntax highlighting.

At the moment this package can handle

  • Java
  • Javascript (new)
  • C/C++
  • Prolog
  • Perl
  • Php3
  • Python
  • Flex
  • ChangeLog
  • Ruby

as source languages, and

  • HTML
  • XHTML
  • ANSI color escape sequences (new)

as output format.

Version 1.8

  • scanner for Javascript
  • new output format: ESC ascii code (e.g. for less, with the help
    of Konstantine Serebriany <[email protected]>).
  • tab character are correctly handled by –tab option is given
    (thanks to Don Stauffer <[email protected]>).
  • presence of getopt_long is handled in a cleaner way.
  • some changes in how changelog files are highlighted
  • =head =cut sections in perl sources are correctly handled
    (reported by Grant McLean <[email protected]>)
  • added Java keywords true and false

Visit the Source-highlight home page at http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite

Anonymous CVS access is also available. Please visit http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/src-highlite/
where you can find detailed descriptions of how to access the CVS
(read-only). Release-candidate versions are available through
CVS.

Bug reports should go to [email protected].

The following mailing lists are available:

if you want to subscribe to a mailing list just go to the URL
and follow the instructions, or send me an e-mail and I’ll
subscribe you.

cheers

Lorenzo

The GIMP 1.3.21

Hi all,

The next release in the development series of the GIMP, version
1.3.21, is now available for download from

ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub/gimp/v1.3/v1.3.21/

or from one of the mirrors listed at http://gimp.org/download.html

This is an extra unstable release before we officially go into
pre-release mode, because there are still some outstanding API
changes to make for plug-in authors which we would like to set in
stone for the 2.x series.

This is the most stable development release we have had to date,
and there are also a few very nice features which have been added
since the last release. So tell your friends, get testing, and keep
those bug reports coming in to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.

Happy GIMPing,
Dave.

Overview of Changes in GIMP
1.3.21

  • Allow to save tool options as named presets [Mitch].
  • Stroke paths using libart [Simon, Bolsh, Mitch, Sven,
    Ville]
  • Better looking and more accessible dockables [Mitch]
  • Fixes for right-to-left rendering [Sven, Mitch]
  • Rewritten webbrowser plug-in [Brix]
  • Much improved path tool [Simon, Mitch]
  • Export GIMP paths to SVG [Sven, Simon]
  • Import SVG paths as GIMP paths [Sven, Simon]
  • Added SVG file plug-in from librsvg and improved it [Sven]
  • Store new vectors in XCF [Simon, Mitch]
  • Allow to toggle visibility of paths in path list [Mitch]
  • Move tool now also moves paths [Mitch]
  • Some progress towards gimp-console, a gtk-less GIMP for batch
    mode [Mitch]
  • Improved Decompose/Compose plug-ins [Alexey Dyachenko,
    Sven]
  • More SIMD compositing code [Helvetix]
  • Right mouse buttons now also cancels paint operations
    [Mitch]
  • More internal code cleanup and documentation [Mitch, Sven]
  • Documented libgimpmath [DindinX]
  • Lots of bug fixes

Other contributors:
Adam D. Moss, Dom Lachowicz, Manish Singh, Jakub Steiner, Christian
Neumair, Seth Burgess, Maurits Rijk, David Necas, Tor Lillqvist,
Ville Pätsi

—
David Neary,
Lyon, France.
E-Mail: [email protected]

glpk 4.1

GLPK 4.1 — Release Information

Release date: Aug 23, 2003

GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) is intended for solving
large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer linear
programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of
routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a callable
library.

GLPK 4.1 is mainly a bug-fix release. Some improvements were
made in lp/mip solver routines and several bugs were fixed in the
GNU MathProg translator. For details please see ChangeLog.

See GLPK web page at <http://www.gnu.org/software/glpk/glpk.html>;.

GLPK distribution can be ftp’ed from <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glpk/>
or from some mirror ftp sites; see <http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html>;.

The MD5 sum is the following:

8eaed88a6f58a153f0e5ab6d729d6de8 *glpk-4.1.tar.gz

GLPK is also available as a Debian GNU/Linux package. See its
web page at <http://packages.debian.org/stable/math/glpk.html>;.

GDB 6.0

GDB 6.0 released!

Version 6.0 of GDB, the GNU Debugger, is now available via
anonymous FTP. GDB is a source-level debugger for C, C++, Pascal,
Objective-C and many other languages. GDB can target (i.e., debug
programs running on) more than a dozen 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, 5.3, was released roughly 10 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:

Size md5sum Name
15689454 e2314b7c9c7670b5384deb90701446f4 gdb-6.0.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! (See http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/)

Andrew Cagney
on behalf of the GDB Developers.

Changes in GDB 6.0

  • Objective-C

    Support for debugging the Objective-C programming language has
    been integrated into GDB.

  • New backtrace mechanism (includes DWARF 2 Call Frame
    Information).

    DWARF 2’s Call Frame Information makes available compiler
    generated information that more exactly describes the program’s
    run-time stack. By using this information, GDB is able to provide
    more robust stack backtraces.

    The i386, amd64 (nee, x86-64), Alpha, m68hc11, ia64, and m32r
    targets have been updated to use a new backtrace mechanism which
    includes DWARF 2 CFI support.

  • Hosted file I/O.

    GDB’s remote protocol has been extended to include support for
    hosted file I/O (where the remote target uses GDB’s file system).
    See GDB’s remote protocol documentation for details.

  • All targets using the new architecture framework.

    All of GDB’s targets have been updated to use the new internal
    architecture framework. The way is now open for future GDB releases
    to include cross-architecture native debugging support (i386 on
    amd64, ppc32 on ppc64).

  • GNU/Linux’s Thread Local Storage (TLS)

    GDB now includes support for for the GNU/Linux implementation of
    per-thread variables.

  • GNU/Linux’s Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL)

    GDB’s thread code has been updated to work with either the new
    GNU/Linux NPTL thread library or the older “LinuxThreads”
    library.

  • Separate debug info.

    GDB, in conjunction with BINUTILS, now supports a mechanism for
    automatically loading debug information from a separate file.
    Instead of shipping full debug and non-debug versions of system
    libraries, system integrators can now instead ship just the
    stripped libraries and optional debug files.

  • DWARF 2 Location Expressions

    DWARF 2 Location Expressions allow the compiler to more
    completely describe the location of variables (even in optimized
    code) to the debugger.

    GDB now includes preliminary support for location expressions
    (support for DW_OP_piece is still missing).

  • Java

    A number of long standing bugs that caused GDB to die while
    starting a Java application have been fixed. GDB’s Java support is
    now considered “useable”.

  • GNU/Linux support for fork, vfork, and exec.

    The “catch fork”, “catch exec”, “catch vfork”, and “set
    follow-fork-mode” commands are now implemented for GNU/Linux. They
    require a 2.5.x or later kernel.

  • GDB supports logging output to a file

    There are two new commands, “set logging” and “show logging”,
    which can be used to capture GDB’s output to a file.

  • The meaning of “detach” has changed for gdbserver

    The “detach” command will now resume the application, as
    documented. To disconnect from gdbserver and leave it stopped, use
    the new “disconnect” command.

  • d10v, m68hc11 `regs’ command deprecated

    The `info registers’ command has been updated so that it
    displays the registers using a format identical to the old `regs’
    command.

  • Profiling support

    A new command, “maint set profile on/off”, has been added. This
    command can be used to enable or disable profiling while running
    GDB, to profile a session or a set of commands. In addition there
    is a new configure switch, “–enable-profiling”, which will cause
    GDB to be compiled with profiling data, for more informative
    profiling results.

  • Default MI syntax changed to “mi2”.

    The default MI (machine interface) syntax, enabled by the
    command line option “-i=mi”, has been changed to “mi2”. The
    previous MI syntax, “mi1”, can be enabled by specifying the option
    “-i=mi1”.

    Support for the original “mi0” syntax (included in GDB 5.0) has
    been removed.

    Fix for gdb/192: removed extraneous space when displaying frame
    level. Fix for gdb/672: update changelist is now output in mi list
    format. Fix for gdb/702: a -var-assign that updates the value now
    shows up

    in a subsequent -var-update.

  • New native configurations.
    FreeBSD/amd64 x86_64-*-freebsd*
  • Multi-arched targets.
    HP/PA HPUX11 hppa*-*-hpux*
    Mitsubishi M32R/D w/simulator m32r-*-elf*
  • 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.

    Z8000 simulator z8k-zilog-none or z8ksim
    Matsushita MN10200 w/simulator mn10200-*-*
    H8/500 simulator h8500-hitachi-hms or h8500hms
    HP/PA running BSD hppa*-*-bsd*
    HP/PA running OSF/1 hppa*-*-osf*
    HP/PA Pro target hppa*-*-pro*
    PMAX (MIPS) running Mach 3.0 mips*-*-mach3*
    Sequent family i[3456]86-sequent-sysv4*
    i[3456]86-sequent-sysv*
    i[3456]86-sequent-bsd*
    Tsqware Sparclet sparclet-*-*
    Fujitsu SPARClite sparclite-fujitsu-none or sparclite
  • REMOVED configurations and files
    V850EA ISA
    Motorola Delta 88000 running Sys V    		 m88k-motorola-sysv or delta88
    IBM AIX PS/2 i[3456]86-*-aix
    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*
    Argonaut Risc Chip (ARC) arc-*-*
    Mitsubishi D30V d30v-*-*
    Fujitsu FR30 fr30-*-elf*
    OS/9000 i[34]86-*-os9k
    I960 with MON960 i960-*-coff
  • MIPS $fp behavior changed

    The convenience variable $fp, for the MIPS, now consistently
    returns the address of the current frame’s base. Previously,
    depending on the context, $fp could refer to either $sp or the
    current frame’s base address. See “8.10 Registers” in the manual
    “Debugging with GDB: The GNU Source-Level Debugger”.

Known problems in GDB 6.0

See also: http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/bugs/

mips*-*-*
powerpc*-*-*
sparc*-*-*

GDB’s SPARC, MIPS and PowerPC targets, in 6.0, have not been
updated to use the new frame mechanism.

People encountering problems with these targets should consult
GDB’s web pages and mailing lists (http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/)
to see if there is an update.

arm-*-*

GDB’s ARM target, in 6.0, has not been updated to use the new
frame mechanism.

Fortunatly the ARM target, in the GDB’s mainline sources, has
been updated so people encountering problems should consider
downloading a more current GDB (http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/current).

gdb/1091: Constructor breakpoints ignored
gdb/1193: g++ 3.3 creates multiple constructors: gdb 5.3 can’t set
breakpoints

When gcc 3.x compiles a C++ constructor or C++ destructor, it
generates 2 or 3 different versions of the object code. These
versions have unique mangled names (they have to, in order for
linking to work), but they have identical source code names, which
leads to a great deal of confusion. Specifically, if you set a
breakpoint in a constructor or a destructor, gdb will put a
breakpoint in one of the versions, but your program may execute the
other version. This makes it impossible to set breakpoints reliably
in constructors or destructors.

gcc 3.x generates these multiple object code functions in order
to implement virtual base classes. gcc 2.x generated just one
object code function with a hidden parameter, but gcc 3.x conforms
to a multi-vendor ABI for C++ which requires multiple object code
functions.

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