From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29409 invoked by alias); 18 Jan 2007 13:07:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 18040 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Jan 2007 05:47:30 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <45AF0A0E.1070203@byu.net> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:07:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20061207 Thunderbird/1.5.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: readline-5.2.1-6, libreadline6-5.2.1-6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-announce-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-announce-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00010.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2.1-6, is available for use, replacing 5.2.1-5 as the current version. 5.1-5 remains the previous version, to match the fact that a previous version of bash 3.1 is still available. NEWS: ===== This release fixes the regression introduced in 5.2.1-5 that accidentally missed the upstream patch to fix prompt display bugs. Hopefully there are no further functional changes caused by my switching to cygport packaging. This version is not strictly binary compatible with readline 5.1; but the only incompatibility is the removal of a cygwin-specific entry point that the cygwin-specific bash 3.0 (but not bash 3.1) depended on. Now that bash 3.0 is no longer available from the cygwin mirrors, I felt it safe to drop that cygwin-specific patch. This version is not strictly behaviorally compatible with readline 5.1. A case has been reported where tab completion using bash 3.1 and readline 5.2 does not work quite right. It is best to stick with either bash 3.1/readline 5.1, or upgrade both programs to bash 3.2.x/readline 5.2.x. When you use setup.exe to upgrade, this should happen automatically. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline-5.2.1/. DESCRIPTION: ============ The readline library will read a line from the terminal and return it, allowing the user to edit the line with emacs or vi editing keys. It also allows a history feature, for editing previous entries, making command line interfaces easier-to-use and more intuitive. libreadline6 provides the .dlls needed for readline and history expansion for dynamic linking in other programs, including bash and gdb; it is required for a minimal cygwin installation. The 6 in libreadline6 distinguishes incompatible API changes made to the prior libreadline4 and libreadline5 libraries still available on the mirrors. readline provides the documentation and the static libraries required for static linking; you should only need it if you plan on compiling an application that links with -lreadline or -lhistory. UPDATE: ======= To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Save it and run setup, answer the questions and pick up 'libreadline6' from the 'Base' category (it should already be selected), or 'readline' in the 'Devel' category. Be sure that you do not have any cygwin programs running during the upgrade. DOWNLOAD: ========= Note that downloads from sources.redhat.com (aka cygwin.com) aren't allowed due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will need to find a mirror which has this update, please choose the one nearest to you: http://cygwin.com/mirrors.html QUESTIONS: ========== If you want to make a point or ask a question the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. - -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin readline maintainer CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO: ================================= To unsubscribe to the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. It will be in the format: cygwin-announce-unsubscribe-YOU=YOURDOMAIN.COM@cygwin.com If you need more information on unsubscribing, start reading here: http://sources.redhat.com/lists.html#unsubscribe-simple Please read *all* of the information on unsubscribing that is available starting at this URL. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFrwoO84KuGfSFAYARAqF9AKCytMEXDnpB+GQ2bUXOM7/sBXbm3ACdEOtJ UQxQfdKaraBAEuVmQ4m4zPU= =/p9v -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----