This release brings RCS to version 5.9.3 for both architectures. A
slightly modified version of the patch for the RCS work file corruption
problem is now included in the upstream sources along with a test, so no
Cygwin specific patches need to be applied.
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NEWS for 5.9.3 (2014-09-17):
- compatibility w/ RCS 2.x file format dropped
This was presaged w/ RCS 5.9.0 (released 2013-05-06), below.
Effectively, the configure script no longer supports option
‘--enable-compat2’, and RCS programs will fail, reporting a
syntax error, if given a comma-v file in 2.x format.
- bug fixes
- crash on co/ci without changes on a branch
RCS 5.8 (released 2011-08-30) introduced a bug whereby a ci
without changes (i.e., reversion) on a branch would crash,
leaving a temporary files and corrupted comma-v file as well.
This regression is now fixed. See tests/t804, and also:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-01/msg00000.html
- file corruption using stdio under Cygwin, Darwin
RCS 5.8 (released 2011-08-30) introduced a bug when using stdio
(e.g., with env var ‘RCS_MEM_LIMIT’ set to "0") under Cygwin
whereby ci with a sufficiently large working file would silently
write a truncated comma-v file. See tests/t805, and also:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-06/msg00000.html
(Although the bug was initially discovered under Cygwin, the
Hydra project reported the same problem for Darwin.)
- portability fixes
- don't recurse on ‘main’
This is for the sake of Cygwin "make check". See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-08/msg00015.html
- avoid C99 VLA elems in func decl, sometimes
This is for the sake of Solaris 10 + GCC 3.4.3. See:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-rcs/2014-08/msg00002.html
- new diff/diff3 cross-compilation support
The configure script now assigns "optimistic defaults" to some
diff/diff3-related vars when cross-compiling and invoked with
vars ‘DIFF’ and ‘DIFF3’. See README.
- maintenance tools updated
- automake (GNU automake) 1.14.1
- gnulib-tool (GNU gnulib 2014-09-16 19:26:48) 0.1.222-aa0c2
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Regards
Achim.
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