From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12718 invoked by alias); 23 Aug 2007 22:29:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 2808 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Aug 2007 22:21:11 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <46CE085D.1060009@byu.net> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:29:00 -0000 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070728 Thunderbird/2.0.0.6 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-announce@cygwin.com Subject: Updated: readline-5.2.7-9, libreadline6-5.2.7-9 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: 2007-08/txt/msg00013.txt.bz2 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline and libreadline6, 5.2.7-9, is available for use, replacing 5.2.4-8 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 is a minor patch release, incorporating three new upstream patches. The patches deal with input loops when the controlling terminal dies, a multibyte display problem (that does not affect cygwin), and a buffering problem when handling more than 511 bytes of input. 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-5.2.7/. 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 iD8DBQFGzghd84KuGfSFAYARAtevAJ49nkJOFC+SfwFWoXHnHND7xQUeXACeLhck 8Awb6qVYGoDRIaW2TXgJmvg= =O/3d -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----