Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I remember reading somewhere (I believe it was a post from Alexander)
> that the ed-0.5 version had some compatibility problems. Version 0.6
> was released a few days ago which is supposed to address this (according
> to the ChangeLog, anyway).
>
> Has anyone managed to test this out with XorgLib? Should BLFS update
> to this 0.6 version?
Well the change log says:
2007-06-29 Antonio Diaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Version 0.6 released.
* License updated to GPL version 3 or later.
* Fixed two minor compatibility problems in signal.c.
* Fixed an infinite loop when reading an empty script.
The files that change are:
COPYING
ChangeLog
NEWS
buf.c (copyright)
carg_parser.c (copyright)
carg_parser.h (copyright)
configure (minimal, no functionality change)
ed.h (copyright)
glbl.c (copyright)
io.c
136,137c135,136
< static char *ibuf; /* ed command-line buffer */
< static int ibufsz; /* ed command-line buffer size */
---
> static char *ibuf = 0; /* ed command-line buffer */
> static int ibufsz = 0; /* ed command-line buffer size */
main.c (copyright in code and file)
main_loop.c (copyright)
re.c (copyright)
signal.c
86d84
< signum = 0; /* keep compiler happy */
96a95
> signum = 0; /* keep compiler happy */
105a105
> #ifdef SA_RESTART
106a107,109
> #else
> new_action.sa_flags = 0;
> #endif
----------------------
Builds with:
configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
make install-man
----------------------
`make install` Installs:
/usr/share/info/ed.info
/usr/bin/ed
cd /usr/bin ; ln ed red
`make install-man` Installs:
ed.1
cd /usr/share/man/man1 ; ln ed.1 red.1
----------------------
`./ed </dev/null` no longer hangs
$ md5sum ed-0.6.tar.bz2
95ae976ffc36e5b881cc7a591628a9ce ed-0.6.tar.bz2
Build time: less than 0.1 SBU
Build Size: 1.2M
The patch is no longer required.
I see no reason not to upgrade.
-- Bruce
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