* Sourceware update to cure your summer time blues
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@ 1999-07-29 1:47 ` Jason Molenda
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From: Jason Molenda @ 1999-07-29 1:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: sourceware-announce
Hey hey, nearly three months without a sourceware update and I'm busting
at the seams with incredibly great stuff to tell you about. Sunlight bad,
hacking good--skip this weekend's picnic and play with all these neato
things we've got on-line instead.
GREAT NEW STUFF
Insight is out!
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/insight/
This is some great stuff. It's a GUI for GDB, the GNU Debugger,
written largely in the tcl/tk scripting language. You may have
seen this in the past under the name "GDBtk"; that was our first
prototypey cut at the idea. We've been developing and refining
this bugger for nearly five years. It is now totally sweet, and
we're releasing it under the terms of the GPL. Insight will help
you to debug like you've never debugged before; it will strike
fear in the hearts of your bugs. Cower, bugs!
Sourceware CD
http://www.cygnus.com/sourcewarecd/
We've got all the free software you could ever want on a handy
little CD. To be a little more accurate, this CD has the entire
contents of the sourceware.cygnus.com ftp site from late May,
1999. If you'd like to have all the sources on a groovy CD, check
this out. There is a link from the web page to some e-commerce
site that will gleefully snarf up your credit card information.
Docbook tools
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools/
Convenient packaging of all the usual Docbook processing tools!
Mark Galassi has set up all the things you'd need to process
and format documents written in Docbook, an SGML format intended
for writing software and hardware documentation. If you've ever
tried to track down all the necessary tools to work with something
like Docbook, you'll really appreciate the convenience of this.
Prebuilt x86 RPMs are provided on the ftp site for those on
appropriate boxes.
GNU libc (glibc)
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/glibc/
The GNU C library has moved to Sourceware! This is the C library
used on all the Linux systems, and works on a myriad of other hosts
as well. Ulrich Drepper is the current maintainer and primary
developer of glibc, and he's got the whole host of Sourceware
access set up: Ftp directory, anonymous CVS, web-browsable CVS,
mailing lists, web archives for mailing lists, and so on.
Guile
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/guile/
Guile is the Scheme-based GNU extension language (``Duct Tape for
Bits''--I love that motto), and has a habit of showing up behind
the scenes of large projects like GNOME. Guile has the usual host
of infrastructure available, including a very active developer's
mailing list and browsable / read-only accessible CVS repository.
I have no idea how Jim Blandy keeps up with all of the developments
happening simultaneously on Guile, but he seems to pull it off.
Check this one out.
NEW RELEASES
eCos 1.2.1 is out!
http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ecos/
This is a gigantic new release from the eCos folks with lots of
goodies for you embedded OS users. Support for ARM and SPARClite,
support for more PowerPC variants, several more boards supported,
bunches of new tools including a synthesized target that runs
on Linux native, and the current sources are now available by
anonymous CVS.
EGCS becomes GCC, GCC 2.95 coming out
http://egcs.cygnus.com/
EGCS, the Enhanced GNU Compiler Suite, has been blessed as the
official GNU C Compiler. Future releases are going to be called
gcc instead of egcs, and the first one of these releases will be
going out within the few days--gcc 2.95. GCC 2.95 has seen a lot
of testing and should be wildly great, so get on the gcc-announce
mailing list and hear the very second when it is released.
Jeff Law, I have no idea how you pulled this off without large
doses of illegal drugs--my hat is off to you and your stamina.
INFRASTRUCTURE and other exciting things to discuss with your parents
When we last tuned in, I had just started setting up a search engine.
That's all in place now--you can search any old thing anywhere on
the site that you'd care to, including all the mailing lists.
I've started setting up GNATS based bug databases for projects and
you can expect to see most of them start using these soon. automake,
autoconf, Java, and Insight now have them. I'm using the gnatsweb
web-based user interface for them, and it is GREAT! I'm very happy
with this, it should impose some organization on the randomness that
is bug reports.
There has been a lot of exciting infrastructure work going on behind
the scenes to make your Sourceware experience a more rewarding,
direct, efficient one (snort! I can't believe I wrote that! I must
go wash my hands repeatedly). Let me know if you have any ideas or
suggestions for making the site even better.
Keep it real,
Jason
Free the Software!
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