From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Molenda To: sourceware-announce@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Sourceware update! Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 02:35:00 -0000 Message-id: <19990512023533.A25394@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 1999/msg00001.html It's two thirty on a Monday night, I've got half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark outside, and I'm wearing sunglasses. Since I'm not standing in line waiting for a ticket to Star Wars, it must be time for yet another installment of AS THE SOURCEWARE TURNS. Hit it! NEW PROJECTS GDB! Here's one near and dear to my own heart, I'm glad to see it on sourceware. GDB is the GNU Debugger, it slices it dices, it finds your bugs automatically. Really! You just sit back and let GDB do all the work. OK, maybe it just helps you to fix your own problems, but it does it really well. Mailing lists are on-line, the ftp site is set up, and there is a publically viewable/browsable CVS archive. As an added plus, I've put a collection of old GDB's on the ftp site. The oldest is GDB 2.4, released in early 1998. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/ BINUTILS -- when I'm down on my luck, when I'm feeling sad, I chase those blues away with the help of these heartwarming utilities. An assembler, a linker; a little something for everyone. Binutils joins sourceware with a mailing list, mail archives for the discussions going back to 1994, and a viewable/browsable CVS archive. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/binutils/ XCONQ: an Empire-type strategy game where players contest for world domination. Fun for the whole family. Stan Shebs has been developing/making releases of xconq for over a decade. It runs on PCs, Macs, and Unix systems, it has an AI engine smarter than most US high school students, and networks more naturally than a marketing executive. Can you guess what it includes? You're right! Mailing list, web page, browsable/viewable CVS archives--who would have thunk it. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/xconq/ NEW RELEASES PTHREADS-WIN32 had their first big release of their compatibility library. Check it at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/pthreads-win32/ GDB 4.18 provides a great chance to check out the latest action with the hippest debugger around. We've got tons of stuff from HP to enhance HPUX support, we've for several new processors supported (Fujitsu FR30, Intel StrongARM, Mitsubishi D30V), and a slew of neato new stuff for remote debugging. http://sourceware.cygnus.com/gdb/ Our JAVA LANGUAGE PROJECT had a majorly huge announcement with the release of LIBGCJ, the run-time half of our setup. GCJ is the compiler that compiles your Java source to native code, and LIBGCJ provides the run-time support for those binaries. Check it at http://sourceware.cygnus.com/java/ INFRASTRUCTURE and OTHER THINGS TO DISCUSS AT PARTIES I've been an unstoppable Infrastructure Maniac for the past couple of months. I've got a gazillion mailing lists moved to sourceware; I'm mostly done migrating lists now. I've been improving on the web archive presentation/interface to make it easier to use, and I've been putting all the old archives on-line for fun historical reference. Just tonight I set up a search engine for sourceware. I'll be refining this interface over the next week or two, but the functionality is all there and--if I may say so myself--it is KICKIN. You will see little search boxes appearing on the mailing list web archive pages over the next few days. Until next time, peace and out, Jason ---- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a mail note to sourceware-announce-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com