X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.1 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL Message-Id: Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:27:52 -0600 From: Eric Blake Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090605 Thunderbird/2.0.0.22 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] [1.7] Updated: readline-6.0.3-1; New package libreadline7-6.0.3-1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------070403020805030900080707" Reply-To: The Cygwin Mailing List X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com --------------070403020805030900080707 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 A new release of readline, 6.0.3-1, and a corresponding bump in the runtime library to the new package libreadline7, are now available for use in cygwin 1.7, replacing 5.2.14-12 and libreadline6 as the current version. Cygwin 1.5 users are unaffected by this change. NEWS: ===== This is a major upstream release, and incorporates all the official upstream patches to date. Since it is built against newer cygwin features, it should handle multibyte characters better; although I have not given that aspect much testing. Upstream changes are listed below. The library bumped versions because some previously exported symbols are no longer available; however, the missing symbols were documented as internal to readline and applications should not have been relying on them anyway. Also, this library was built with gcc 4. See also the upstream documentation in /usr/share/doc/readline/. NOTES: ====== Be aware that an issue with offering libreadline as both a static and dynamic library has been identified - some functions, such as rl_function_of_keyseq, cannot work correctly with both library styles without some additional __declspec decoration in the dynamic case. This release caters to static compilation (and packages like bash that use the problematic functions from dynamic readline have to add a minimal workaround); it is possible that a future package will either be dynamic-only, or that compiling against the static readline-6.0 will require the declaration of a preprocessor macro, so that dynamic linking works without requiring patches to every client. 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. libreadline7 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 7 in libreadline7 distinguishes incompatible API changes made to the prior libreadline5 and libreadline6 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 'libreadline7' 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. 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Fixed a number of redisplay errors in environments supporting multibyte characters. b. Fixed bugs in vi command mode that caused motion commands to inappropriately set the mark. c. When using the arrow keys in vi insertion mode, readline allows movement beyond the current end of the line (unlike command mode). d. Fixed bugs that caused readline to loop when the terminal has been taken away and reads return -1/EIO. e. Fixed bugs in redisplay occurring when displaying prompts containing invisible characters. f. Fixed a bug that caused the completion append character to not be reset to the default after an application-specified completion function changed it. g. Fixed a problem that caused incorrect positioning of the cursor while in emacs editing mode when moving forward at the end of a line while using a locale supporting multibyte characters. h. Fixed an off-by-one error that caused readline to drop every 511th character of buffered input. i. Fixed a bug that resulted in SIGTERM not being caught or cleaned up. j. Fixed redisplay bugs caused by multiline prompts with invisible characters or no characters following the final newline. k. Fixed redisplay bug caused by prompts consisting solely of invisible characters. l. Fixed a bug in the code that buffers characters received very quickly in succession which caused characters to be dropped. m. Fixed a bug that caused readline to reference uninitialized data structures if it received a SIGWINCH before completing initialzation. n. Fixed a bug that caused the vi-mode `last command' to be set incorrectly and therefore unrepeatable. o. Fixed a bug that caused readline to disable echoing when it was being used with an output file descriptor that was not a terminal. p. Readline now blocks SIGINT while manipulating internal data structures during redisplay. q. Fixed a bug in redisplay that caused readline to segfault when pasting a very long line (over 130,000 characters). r. Fixed bugs in redisplay when using prompts with no visible printing characters. s. Fixed a bug that caused redisplay errors when using prompts with invisible characters and numeric arguments to a command in a multibyte locale. t. Fixed a bug that caused redisplay errors when using prompts with invisible characters spanning more than two physical screen lines. 2. New Features in Readline a. A new variable, rl_sort_completion_matches; allows applications to inhibit match list sorting (but beware: some things don't work right if applications do this). b. A new variable, rl_completion_invoking_key; allows applications to discover the key that invoked rl_complete or rl_menu_complete. c. The functions rl_block_sigint and rl_release_sigint are now public and available to calling applications who want to protect critical sections (like redisplay). d. The functions rl_save_state and rl_restore_state are now public and available to calling applications; documented rest of readline's state flag values. e. A new user-settable variable, `history-size', allows setting the maximum number of entries in the history list. f. There is a new implementation of menu completion, with several improvements over the old; the most notable improvement is a better `completions browsing' mode. g. The menu completion code now uses the rl_menu_completion_entry_function variable, allowing applications to provide their own menu completion generators. h. There is support for replacing a prefix of a pathname with a `...' when displaying possible completions. This is controllable by setting the `completion-prefix-display-length' variable. Matches with a common prefix longer than this value have the common prefix replaced with `...'. i. There is a new `revert-all-at-newline' variable. If enabled, readline will undo all outstanding changes to all history lines when `accept-line' is executed. --------------070403020805030900080707 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple --------------070403020805030900080707--