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 GNU Prev This Latest Distribution CD-ROM CD-ROM FSF Status ------------ ------ ------ ------ ----------------- autoconf * * 1.7 No port integrated yet 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