readline/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]
 466
 467                                     4/9
 468                                     ---
 469 [readline-4.2 released]
 470
 471                                     5/2
 472                                     ---
 473 Makefile.in,{doc,examples,shlib}/Makefile.in
 474         - added support for DESTDIR installation root prefix, to support
 475           building packages
 476
 477 doc/Makefile.in
 478         - add an info `dir' file entry for rluserman.info on `make install'
 479         - change man1ext to `.1' and man3ext to `.3'
 480         - install man pages with a $(man3ext) extension in the target directory
 481         - add support for installing html documentation if `htmldir' has a
 482           value
 483
 484 Makefile.in
 485         - on `make install', install from the `shlib' directory, too
 486         - on `make uninstall', uninstall in the `doc' and `shlib'
 487           subdirectories, too
 488
 489 support/shlib-install
 490         - add `freebsdelf*', `freebsdaout*', Hurd, `sysv4*', `sysv5*', `dgux*'
 491           targets for symlink creation
 492
 493                                     5/7
 494                                     ---
 495 configure.in, config.h.in
 496         - check for <limits.h>, define HAVE_LIMITS_H if found
 497
 498                                     5/8
 499                                     ---
 500 aclocal.m4
 501         - pick up change to BASH_CHECK_LIB_TERMCAP that adds check for
 502           libtinfo (termcap-specific portion of ncurses-5.2)
 503
 504                                     5/9
 505                                     ---
 506 configure.in
 507         - call AC_C_CONST to find out whether or not the compiler supports
 508           `const'
 509
 510 config.h.in
 511         - placeholder for `const' define, if any
 512
 513                                    5/10
 514                                    ----
 515 configure.in
 516         - fix AC_CHECK_PROG(ar, ...) test to specify right value for the
 517           case where ar is not found; should produce a better error message
 518
 519                                    5/14
 520                                    ----
 521 configure.in,config.h.in
 522         - check for vsnprintf, define HAVE_VSNPRINTF if found
 523
 524                                    5/21
 525                                    ----
 526 configure.in, config.h.in
 527         - add checks for size_t, ssize_t
 528
 529                                    5/30
 530                                    ----
 531 configure.in
 532         - update autoconf to version 2.50, use in AC_PREREQ
 533         - changed AC_INIT to new flavor
 534         - added AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR
 535         - AC_CONFIG_HEADER -> AC_CONFIG_HEADERS
 536         - call AC_C_PROTOTYPES
 537         - AC_RETSIGTYPE -> AC_TYPE_SIGNAL
 538
 539                                    8/22
 540                                    ----
 541 configure.in
 542         - updated the version number to 4.2a
 543
 544 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 545         - make sure tilde.o is built -DREADLINE_LIBRARY when being built as
 546           part of the standalone library, so it picks up the right include
 547           files
 548
 549                                    8/23
 550                                    ----
 551 support/shlib-install
 552         - support for Darwin/MacOS X shared library installation
 553
 554                                    9/24
 555                                    ----
 556 examples/readlinebuf.h
 557         - a new file, a C++ streambuf interface that uses readline for I/O.
 558           Donated by Dimitris Vyzovitis <vyzo@media.mit.edu>
 559
 560                                    10/9
 561                                    ----
 562 configure.in
 563         - replaced call to BASH_HAVE_TIOCGWINSZ with AC_HEADER_TIOCGWINSZ
 564
 565 [readline-4.2a-beta1 frozen]
 566
 567                                    10/15
 568                                    -----
 569 configure.in, config.h.in
 570         - check for <memory.h>, define HAVE_MEMORY_H if found
 571         - check for <strings.h>, define HAVE_STRINGS_H if found
 572
 573                                    10/18
 574                                    -----
 575 configure.in, config.h.in
 576         - check for isascii, define HAVE_ISASCII if found
 577
 578 configure.in
 579         - changed the macro names from bash as appropriate:
 580                 BASH_SIGNAL_CHECK -> BASH_SYS_SIGNAL_VINTAGE
 581                 BASH_REINSTALL_SIGHANDLERS -> BASH_SYS_REINSTALL_SIGHANDLERS
 582                 BASH_MISC_SPEED_T -> BASH_CHECK_SPEED_T
 583
 584                                    10/22
 585                                    -----
 586 configure.in
 587         - check for isxdigit with AC_CHECK_FUNCS
 588
 589 config.h.in
 590         - new define for HAVE_ISXDIGIT
 591
 592                                    10/29
 593                                    -----
 594 configure.in, config.h.in
 595         - check for strpbrk with AC_CHECK_FUNCS, define HAVE_STRPBRK if found
 596
 597                                     11/1
 598                                     ----
 599 Makefile.in
 600         - make sure DESTDIR is passed to install and uninstall makes in
 601           subdirectories
 602         - when saving old copies of installed libraries, make sure we use
 603           DESTDIR for the old installation tree
 604
 605 [readline-4.2a-rc1 frozen]
 606
 607                                    11/2
 608                                    ----
 609 Makefile.in, shlib/Makefile.in
 610         - don't put -I$(includedir) into CFLAGS
 611
 612                                    11/15
 613                                    -----
 614 [readline-4.2a released]
 615
 616                                    11/20
 617                                    -----
 618 examples/rlcat.c
 619         - new file
 620
 621 examples/Makefile.in
 622         - changes for rlcat
 623
 624                                    11/28
 625                                    -----
 626 configure.in
 627         - default TERMCAP_LIB to -lcurses if $prefer_curses == yes (as when
 628           --with-curses is supplied)
 629
 630 examples/Makefile.in
 631         - substitute @LDFLAGS@ in LDFLAGS assignment
 632
 633                                    11/29
 634                                    -----
 635 config.h.in
 636         - add necessary defines for multibyte include files and functions
 637         - add code to define HANDLE_MULTIBYTE if prerequisites are met
 638
 639 configure.in
 640         - call BASH_CHECK_MULTIBYTE
 641
 642                                    12/14
 643                                    -----
 644 config.h.in
 645         - add #undef PROTOTYPES, filled in by AC_C_PROTOTYPES
 646
 647                                    12/17
 648                                    -----
 649 config.h.in
 650         - moved HANDLE_MULTIBYTE code to rlmbutil.h
 651
 652 rlmbutil.h, mbutil.c
 653         - new files
 654
 655 Makefile.in, shlib/Makefile.in
 656         - added rules for mbutil.c
 657
 658                                    12/20
 659                                    -----
 660 configure.in
 661         - added --enable-shared, --enable-static options to configure to
 662           say which libraries are built by default (both default to yes)
 663         - if SHLIB_STATUS == 'unsupported', turn off default shared library
 664           building
 665         - substitute new STATIC_TARGET, SHARED_TARGET, STATIC_INSTALL_TARGET,
 666           and SHARED_INSTALL_TARGET
 667
 668 Makefile.in
 669         - `all' target now depends on (substituted) @STATIC_TARGET@ and
 670           @SHARED_TARGET@
 671         - `install' target now depends on (substituted) @STATIC_INSTALL_TARGET@
 672           and @SHARED_INSTALL_TARGET@
 673
 674 INSTALL, README
 675         - updated with new info about --enable-shared and --enable-static
 676
 677                                  1/10/2002
 678                                  ---------
 679 configure.in
 680         - bumped the library version number to 4.3
 681
 682                                    1/24
 683                                    ----
 684 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 685         - changes for new file, text.c, with character and text handling
 686           functions from readline.c
 687
 688                                    2/20
 689                                    ----
 690 {configure.config.h}.in
 691         - call AC_C_CHAR_UNSIGNED, define __CHAR_UNSIGNED__ if chars are
 692           unsigned by default
 693
 694                                    5/20
 695                                    ----
 696 doc/Makefile.in
 697         - new maybe-clean target that removes the generated documentation if
 698           the build directory differs from the source directory
 699         - distclean target now depends on maybe-clean
 700
 701                                    7/17
 702                                    ----
 703 [readline-4.3 released]
 704
 705                                    7/18
 706                                    ----
 707 shlib/Makefile.in
 708         - fix bad dependency: text.so: terminal.c, make it depend on text.c
 709
 710                                     8/7
 711                                     ---
 712 support/shlib-install
 713         - break `linux' out into its own stanza:  it seems that linux
 714           distributions are all moving to the following scheme:
 715
 716                 libreadline.so.4.3      installed version
 717                 libreadline.so.4 -> libreadline.so.4.3  symlink
 718                 libreadline.so -> libreadline.so.4      symlink
 719
 720                                    10/29
 721                                    -----
 722 support/shlib-install
 723         - change INSTALL_LINK[12] to use `&&' instead of `;' so it only
 724           tries the link if the cd succeeds; put ${echo} in there, too
 725         - use $LN instead of `ln -s' so it works on machines without symlinks
 726         - change special linux stanza to use cd before ln also
 727         - change to use $INSTALL_LINK1 and $INSTALL_LINK2 appropriately
 728           instead of explicit commands in various stanzas
 729
 730                                     2/1
 731                                     ---
 732 config.h.in
 733         - add HAVE_MBRTOWC and HAVE_MBRLEN
 734         - add NO_MULTIBYTE_SUPPORT for new configure argument
 735         - add STDC_HEADERS
 736
 737 configure.in
 738         - new argument --enable-multibyte (enabled by default), allows
 739           multibyte support to be turned off even on systems that support it
 740         - add check for ansi stdc headers with call to AC_HEADER_STDC
 741
 742                                     2/3
 743                                     ---
 744 configure.in
 745         - add call to BASH_FUNC_CTYPE_NONASCII
 746
 747 config.h.in
 748         - add CTYPE_NON_ASCII
 749
 750                                    2/20
 751                                    ----
 752
 753 doc/manvers.texinfo
 754         - renamed to version.texi to match other GNU software
 755         - UPDATE-MONTH variable is now `UPDATED-MONTH'
 756
 757 doc/{hist,rlman,rluserman}.texinfo
 758         - include version.texi
 759
 760 doc/{rltech,rluser,hstech,hsuser}.texi
 761         - changed the suffix from `texinfo' to `texi'
 762
 763 doc/Makefile.in
 764         - made appropriate changes for {{rl,hs}tech,{rl,hs}user}.texi
 765
 766 doc/{rlman,rluserman}.texinfo
 767         - changed the suffix from `texinfo' to `texi'
 768
 769 doc/hist.texinfo
 770         - renamed to history.texi to be more consistent
 771
 772                                    6/11
 773                                    ----
 774 shlib/Makefile.in
 775         - have configure substitute value of `@LDFLAGS@' into the assignment
 776           to SHLIB_XLDFLAGS
 777
 778                                    6/16
 779                                    ----
 780 configure.in
 781         - readline and history libraries are now at version 5.0
 782
 783                                    8/18
 784                                    ----
 785 support/shlib-install
 786         - support for FreeBSD-gnu (from Robert Millan)
 787
 788                                    12/4
 789                                    ----
 790 Makefile.in
 791         - add variables for localedir and the PACKAGE_* variables, auto-set
 792           by configure
 793
 794                                    12/9
 795                                    ----
 796 Makefile.in
 797         - use mkinstalldirs instead of mkdirs
 798
 799                                    4/22
 800                                    ----
 801 Makefile.in
 802         - separate doc install/uninstall out into two new targets:
 803           install-doc and uninstall-doc
 804         - make install-doc and uninstall-doc prerequisites of appropriate
 805           install and uninstall targets
 806
 807 examples/rl-fgets.c
 808         - new example from Harold Levy that wraps fgets replacement functions
 809           that call readline in a shared library that can be interposed with
 810           LD_PRELOAD
 811
 812                                    7/27
 813                                    ----
 814 [readline-5.0 released]
 815
 816                                    11/15
 817                                    -----
 818 examples/rlfe/{ChangeLog,Makefile.in,README,config.h.in,configure,configure.in,extern.h,os.h,pty.c,rlfe.c,screen.h}
 819         - new version of rlfe, rlfe-0.4, from Per Bothner; now a standalone
 820           application
 821
 822                                    11/16
 823                                    -----
 824 shlib/Makefile.in
 825         - substitute TERMCAP_LIB in from configure
 826
 827 configure.in
 828         - if SHLIB_LIBS doesn't include a termcap library (curses, ncurses,
 829           termcap, termlib), append the value of $TERMCAP_LIB to it
 830
 831                                    11/30
 832                                    -----
 833 configure.in
 834         - take out change from 11/16; it doesn't work for some systems (e.g.,
 835           SunOS 4.x and Solaris 2.6)
 836         - add support for --enable-purify configure argument
 837         - pass TERMCAP_LIB in environment when calling shobj-conf
 838
 839 examples/Makefile.in
 840         - add support for building examples with purify
 841
 842                                  1/23/2005
 843                                  ---------
 844 configure.in
 845         - set BUILD_DIR to contain backslashes to escape any spaces in the
 846           directory name -- this is what make will accept in targets and
 847           prerequisites, so it's better than trying to use double quotes
 848
 849                                    2/25
 850                                    ----
 851 configure.in
 852         - change check for sys/ptem.h to include sys/stream.h if present, to
 853           avoid the `present but cannot be compiled' messages on Solaris and
 854           SVR4.2 (does anyone still use SVR4.2?)
 855
 856                                     5/7
 857                                     ---
 858 configure.in
 859         - add cross-compiling support from the bash configure.in, which cygwin
 860           and mingw have apparently adopted
 861         - add check for pwd.h, fcntl.h
 862         - add checks for fcntl, kill system calls
 863         - add checks for getpw{ent,nam,uid} C library functions
 864         - pass a compile-time option through to Makefiles if cross-compiling
 865
 866 config.h.in
 867         - add HAVE_PWD_H for <pwd.h>, HAVE_FCNTL_H for <fcntl.h>
 868         - add HAVE_FCNTL, HAVE_KILL for respective system calls
 869         - add HAVE_GETPW{ENT,NAM,UID} for passwd functions
 870
 871 Makefile.in,shlib/Makefile.in
 872         - @CROSS_COMPILE@ is substituted into DEFS (equal to -DCROSS_COMPILING
 873           if bash is being cross-compiled)
 874
 875                                     8/2
 876                                     ---
 877 examples/Makefile.in
 878         - use $(READLINE_LIB) instead of -lreadline to get around MacOS X 10.4's
 879           preference for (incompatible) shared libraries over static libraries
 880           in the load path
 881
 882                                    8/11
 883                                    ----
 884 support/shobj-conf
 885         - new variable: SHLIB_LIBPREF, prefix for shared library name (defaults
 886           to `lib'
 887         - new variable: SHLIB_DLLVERSION, used on Cygwin to set the library
 888           version number
 889         - new variable: SHLIB_DOT, separator character between library name and
 890           suffix and version information (defaults to `.')
 891         - new stanza for cygwin to generate windows-compatible dll
 892
 893 support/shlib-install
 894         - add new option `-b bindir' for systems like cygwin/windows that
 895           require it
 896         - new stanza for cygwin that installs a dll into $bindir and an implied
 897           link library into $libdir
 898
 899 configure.in
 900         - substitute new variables from shobj-conf
 901
 902 shlib/Makefile.in
 903         - substitute bindir, SHLIB_DOT, SHLIB_LIBPREF, SHLIB_DLLVERSION from
 904           configure
 905         - pass `-b $(bindir)' to shlib-install for install and uninstall targets
 906         - library names now use $SHLIB_LIBPREF and $SHLIB_DOT
 907
 908 INSTALL,README
 909         - document new SHLIB_DOT, SHLIB_LIBPREF, and SHLIB_DLLVERSION variables
 910
 911                                    10/4
 912                                    ----
 913 [readline-5.1-beta1 frozen]
 914
 915                                    12/1
 916                                    ----
 917 configure.in
 918         - changed release status to `release'
 919
 920 [readline-5.1 frozen]
 921
 922                                    12/9
 923                                    ----
 924 [readline-5.1 released]
 925
 926                                    12/14
 927                                    -----
 928 examples/rlfe/Makefile.in
 929         - add @LIBS@ to LIBS assignment to pick up extra libraries from
 930           configure
 931
 932                                  1/3/2006
 933                                  --------
 934 support/shlib-install
 935         - Install shared libraries with execute bit set on Linux
 936
 937                                     6/9
 938                                     ---
 939 [readline-5.2-alpha frozen]
 940
 941                                    6/26
 942                                    ----
 943 configure.in
 944         - set CROSS_COMPILE to the empty string by default, so we don't inherit
 945           a random value from the environment
 946
 947                                     7/8
 948                                     ---
 949 [readline-5.2-alpha released]
 950
 951
 952 [readline-5.2-beta released]
 953
 954                                    9/12
 955                                    ----
 956 config.h.in
 957         - add defines for wcscoll, iswctype, iswupper, iswlower, towupper,
 958           towlower functions
 959         - replace define for wctomb with one for wcrtomb
 960         - add defines for wchar_t, wint_t, wctype_t types
 961
 962                                    10/11
 963                                    -----
 964 [readline-5.2 released]
 965
 966                                    11/9
 967                                    ----
 968 examples/rlfe/{configure.in,Makefile.in,config.h.in,rlfe.c,pty.c}
 969         - portability fixes from Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
 970
 971                                    11/21
 972                                    -----
 973 Makefile.in
 974         - add `install-examples' and `uninstall-examples' targets
 975
 976 examples/Makefile.in
 977         - add correct variables to build examples on Windows
 978         - add appropriate rules to install and uninstall example sources in
 979           $(datadir)/readline
 980
 981                                    11/27
 982                                    -----
 983 config.h.in
 984         - move #undef of HAVE_STRCOLL out of config.h.in, since autoconf tries
 985           to substitute it based on configure tests
 986
 987                                  4/27/2007
 988                                  ---------
 989 examples/autoconf
 990         - new directory with example autoconf macros to detect readline and
 991           return information about the installed version
 992
 993                                    6/13
 994                                    ----
 995 support/shlib-install
 996         - changes to support AIX 5.x shared library installation
 997
 998                                  3/20/2008
 999                                  ---------
1000 support/shlib-install
1001         - add support for NetBSD and Interix shared library installation
1002
1003                                    4/22
1004                                    ----
1005 support/wcwidth.c
1006         - updated implementation from 2007-05
1007
1008                                    7/18
1009                                    ----
1010 support/shlib-install
1011         - support for mingw32, contributed by Carlo Bramix <carlo.bramix@libero.it>
1012
1013                                     8/4
1014                                     ---
1015 configure.in
1016         - changed to readline-6.0
1017
1018                                    8/18
1019                                    ----
1020 support/config.{guess,sub}
1021         - updated to newer versions from autoconf-2.62 distribution
1022
1023                                  3/5/2009
1024                                  --------
1025 support/shlib-install
1026         - take a new -V host_vendor argument
1027         - add ${host_vendor} to string tested in case statement for symlink
1028           creation section
1029         - add support for FreeBSD/gentoo, which uses Linux library naming
1030           scheme
1031         - change FreeBSD symlink rules, since FreeBSD 7+ has only ELF shared
1032           libraries.  DragonflyBSD rules are the same.  Fix from Timothy
1033           Redaelli <drizzt@gentoo.org>
1034
1035 shlib/Makefile.in
1036         - add definition of host_vendor, substituted by configure
1037         - add -V host_vendor argument to all invocations of shlib-install.
1038           Fix from Timothy Redaelli <drizzt@gentoo.org>
1039
1040                                    3/10
1041                                    ----
1042 configure.in
1043         - add call to AC_SYS_LARGEFILE for readdir and largefile support on
1044           Linux
1045
1046 config.h.in
1047         - add _FILE_OFFSET_BITS define
1048
1049                                    4/19
1050                                    ----
1051 Makefile.in
1052         - add targets for making and installing documentation required by GNU
1053           coding standards.  Fix from Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
1054
1055 posixselect.h
1056         - pick up from bash.  Inspired by Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
1057
1058                                    10/28
1059                                    -----
1060 support/shlib-install
1061         - decrease the default version of FreeBSD that installs shared libraries
1062           to 4.x.  Advice from Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
1063
1064                                    12/18
1065                                    -----
1066 [readline-6.1-rc1 released]
1067
1068                                    12/23
1069                                    -----
1070 doc/Makefile.in
1071         - make sure $(topdir) is not ".." before removing all of the formatted
1072           documentation in `make distclean'.  $(topdir) is set to `..' if
1073           readline is being built in the source directory.  Fixes problem
1074           noticed by THOUMIN Damien <thoumin@ipanematech.com>
1075
1076                                    12/29
1077                                    -----
1078 [readline-6.1 frozen]
1079
1080                                  2/5/2010
1081                                  --------
1082 examples/Makefile.in
1083         - make sure to install example C files using $(srcdir)/$$f in case
1084           we're building outside the source directory.  Bug report and fix
1085           from Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
1086
1087                                    7/25
1088                                    ----
1089 xfree.c
1090         - new file with xfree() implementation, moved from xmalloc.c
1091
1092                                    12/28
1093                                    -----
1094 {examples,shlib}/Makefile.in
1095         - Cygwin-based changes from Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>