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- Changes Since Last Fresh Fish CD-ROM
- (Last updated 12/22/93)
-
-
- This file lists significant changes since the last Fresh Fish CD-ROM,
- except for the usual and expected differences like all the new material
- submitted since the last Fresh Fish CD-ROM.
-
- *** Floppy Disk Contents Files
-
- Copies of the "Contents" files from floppy disks 001-950 have been
- added to the CD-ROM, under Useful/Contents/*/*, in blocks of 10
- "Contents" files per CD-ROM file.
-
- *** Parnet support
-
- Some users requested an icon to explicitly start parnet on CDTV's
- that don't have keyboards. Although the standard s/Startup-Sequence
- is supposed to start parnet, I added an icon to use c:IconX to
- explicitly start parnet. I'm not sure why starting parnet from
- the startup sequence was not adequate for all users. On second
- thought, the automatic startup may even be inappropriate, for those
- rare users that are using the CDTV as a general purpose Amiga and
- have other devices attached to the parallel port. I believe the
- only way to kill parnet is to reboot, so automatic startup would
- effectively always kill the parallel port.
-
- *** KingFisher
-
- Some users requested that KingFisher be included in an obvious
- location. I added a KingFisher directory in the root directory
- of the CD-ROM, included the latest version of KingFisher, and
- updated the database to go to disk 950.
-
- *** DirWork
-
- Some users requested a directory utility to be placed in an obvious
- and easily accessible place on the CD-ROM. I added DirWork 1.62 in
- the DirWork directory in the root directory of the CD-ROM. The
- executable for this distribution was supplied directly by the
- author. (Thanks for the great utility Chris!)
-
- *** Useful/dist/other directory reorganized
-
- The useful/dist/other directory has been split up into a directory
- tree using the same two level directory structure as aminet. For
- the moment at least, I've adopted the same structure for organizing
- other parts of the disk (the new material for example), since it
- is a standard that many users are familiar with.
-
- *** GNU gcc 2.3.3
-
- A version of gcc 2.3.3 has been added. It is based on earlier
- released versions of 2.3.3, but has had some bugs fixed and things
- have moved around a little bit to conform to the conventions used
- with other versions of gcc on this CD-ROM.
-
- The new 2.3.3 version now does temporary names correctly, so it is
- possible to have two or more simultaneous compiles without the
- temporary files colliding.
-
- *** GNU gcc 2.5.7
-
- Gcc 2.4.5 has been replaced with gcc 2.5.7. This version of gcc
- now recognizes the "-resident" option (2.4.5 just aborted) however
- there may still be problems in using it. I suggest using gcc 2.3.3
- if you need to use "-resident".
-
- *** GNU gcc (all)
-
- All the versions of gcc look for local header files in LOCAL:include
- and LOCAL:os-include, and look for local library files in LOCAL:lib
- and LOCAL:os-lib. This allows you to add local packages that will
- be found automatically by gcc, in a location that is writable by
- you. Simply reassign LOCAL: to point to the correct location.
-
- Gcc now automatically includes -lamiga in the command line to the
- linker, so you can use AmigaDOS specific calls in your code without
- having to remember to link with libamiga.a.
-
- *** GNU ld
-
- A new option "-f" or "-flavor" is used to inform the linker to look
- in additional subdirectories for particular "flavors" of libraries,
- like libraries compiled with -fresident, libraries compiled with
- -g, libraries compiled with -p, etc. All the flavor args are
- collected in a list, sorted, and then used to create additional
- sudirectories at the end of the standard library search paths.
-
- For example, given the args
-
- "-L mystuff:lib -flavor libx -flavor libb -lmylib"
-
- the linker will search for libmylib.a in "mystuff:lib/libb/libx/".
-
- In particular, this is the mechanism that is now used to locate
- the base relative libraries, which have moved from gcc:blib to
- gcc:lib/libb. Eventually there will be other standard flavors
- of libraries, like -p compiled and -g compiled libraries, in
- a subtree like:
-
- gcc:lib/libb/libc.a -resident
- gcc:lib/libb/libg/libc.a -resident -g
- gcc:lib/libb/libg/libp/libc.a -resident -g -p
- gcc:lib/libp/libc.a -p
- gcc:lib/libg/libp/libc.a -g -p
-
- etc.
-
-
- GNU DISTRIBUTIONS -- General Status
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- bash * 1.13.4 1.13.4 Port incomplete
- bc 1.02 1.02 1.02 No change
- binutils 1.8.x 1.8.x 2.3 No change
- bison 1.22 1.22 1.22 No change
- calc * * 2.02b No port integrated yet
- cpio 2.3 2.3 2.3 No change
- cvs * * 1.3 No port integrated yet
- dc 0.2 0.2 0.2 No change
- dejagnu * * 1.1.1 No port integrated yet
- diffutils 2.4 2.6 2.6 Updated
- doschk 1.1 1.1 1.1 No change
- elvis * * 1.7 No port integrated yet
- emacs 18.59 18.59 19.22 No change
- f2c * * 930428 No port integrated yet
- fileutils 3.6 3.9 3.9 Updated
- find 3.8 3.8 3.8 No change
- finger * * 1.37 No port integrated yet
- flex 2.3.8 2.4.5 2.4.5 Updated
- fontutils * * 0.6 No port integrated yet
- gas 1.38 1.38 2.2 No change
- gawk * 2.15.3 2.15.3 Added
- gcc 2.4.5 2.5.7 2.5.7 Updated
- gcc 2.3.3 2.5.7 Added
- gdb * * 4.11 No port integrated yet
- gdbm 1.6 1.7.1 1.7.1 Updated
- ghostscript * * 2.6.1 No port integrated yet
- ghostview * * 1.5 No port integrated yet
- glibc * * 1.06 No port integrated yet
- gmp 1.3.2 1.3.2 1.3.2 No change
- gnuchess * * 4.0.62 No port integrated yet
- gnugo * * 1.1 No port integrated yet
- grep 2.0 2.0 2.0 No change
- groff * 1.08 1.08 Added
- gzip 1.2.4 1.2.4 1.2.4 No change
- indent 1.8 1.8 1.8 No change
- ispell 4.0 4.0 4.0 No change
- less * * 177 No port integrated yet
- libg++ * 2.5.2 2.5.2 Added
- m4 1.0.3 1.1 1.1 Updated
- make 3.68 3.69 3.69 Updated
- mm * * 1.07 No port integrated yet
- mtools * * 2.0.7 No port integrated yet
- nethack * * 3.1.3 No port integrated yet
- oleo * * 1.3.1b No port integrated yet
- patch 2.1 2.1 2.1 No change
- perl 4.036 4.036 4.036 No change (not working)
- rcs * 5.6.0.1 5.6.0.1 Added
- readline * * 1.1 No port integrated yet
- recode * * 3.2.4 No port integrated yet
- regex * * 0.12 No port integrated yet
- sed 2.03 2.03 2.03 No change
- shellutils 1.8 1.9.2 1.9.2 Updated
- tar 1.11.2 1.11.2 1.11.2 No change
- termcap 1.2 1.2 1.2 No change
- texinfo 3.1 3.1 3.1 No change
- textutils 1.6 1.9 1.9 Updated
- time * * 1.6 No port integrated yet
- tput * * 1.0 No port integrated yet
- uucp * * 1.04 No port integrated yet
- uuencode 1.0 1.0 1.0 No change
- wdiff * * 0.04 No port integrated yet
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