1@c -*-texinfo-*- 2@ifclear ANNOUNCE-ONLY 3@chapter NEWS 4 5@ifset TEXT-ONLY 6@include version.texi 7@end ifset 8 9The currently released version is @samp{@value{GNUSTEP-MAKE-VERSION}}. 10@end ifclear 11 12@section Changes in version @samp{2.8.0} 13 14@itemize 15 16@item Better library combo and ABI detection: gnustep-make will now attempt to 17detect the optimal library combo and ABI supported by the installed compiler 18and Objective-C runtime library. Explicit selection of the runtime ABI is now 19possible using the @code{--with-runtime-abi} configure option. 20 21@item Full support for the gnustep-2.0 Objective-C ABI. 22 23@item Support for creating a Git tag and creating a tarball from a git tag 24using the @code{git-tag} and @code{git-dist} targets. 25 26@item Support for creating a Mercurial tag and creating a tarball from a hg 27tag using the @code{hg-tag} and @code{hg-dist} targets. 28 29@item Dropped legacy Rhapsody and FreeBSD-out support. 30 31@end itemize 32 33@section Changes in version @samp{2.7.0} 34 35Garbage collection support removed 36 37ARC enabled by default if the ng runtime is used 38 39Multi-architecture directory layout adjusted to be more Debian compatible 40 41Framework support fixes 42 43Various other minor bugfixes 44 45@ifclear ANNOUNCE-ONLY 46 47@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.8} 48 49Configure option '--with-library-combo=ng-gnu-gnu' to use the 'Next Generation' setup of the latest ObjectiveC-2 runtime and compiler features rather than traditional runtime. Requires the new runtime and a recent clang compiler. 50 51With the 'ng' runtime in use, you can define GS_WITH_ARC=1 at the start of a makefile, or in your environment, or in the command line arguments to have objC code built using ARC. 52 53Command line option 'documentation=no' to suppress builds of documentation. 54 55Integration of testsuite for regression/unit testing of libraries using the 'check' target. In your makefile define libraryname_TEST_DIR = TestsSubdirectory 56 57Various minor bugfixes, documentation spelling corrections etc. 58 59The '--enable-strict-v2-mode' option is now, after eight years, turned on by default (in anticipation of finally removing backward compatibility with version one). WARNING; Packagers please ensure that you update any old gnustep-make version one makefiles. 60 61Garbage collection support to be removed at the next release. 62 63@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.7} 64 65Improved package building support 66 67Improved environment variable support 68 69Improved Java support 70 71Various minor bugfixes, documentation spelling corrections etc. 72 73@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.6} 74 75Debian packaging support 76 77Minor bugfixes. 78 79@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.5} 80 81Bugfix for non-fragile ABI test 82 83Bugfix order if include diorectories for system includes 84 85Bugfix equality test for prorocol testing 86 87Added minimal test support for .c and .cc files. 88 89@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.4} 90 91Test framework extended equality tests. 92 93Android build target 94 95@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.3} 96 97Minor bugfix release. 98 99@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.2} 100 101Added standalone filesystem layout for putting everything in 102one directory for easy deployment of relocatable. Other bug fixes. 103 104@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.1} 105 106Bug fix release. Most notably to fix a problem compiling GNUstep with clang. 107 108@section Changes in version @samp{2.6.0} 109 110@itemize @bullet 111@item The default filesystem layout is now the 'fhs' layout 112@item The default location of the configuration file changed when not installing system-wide 113@item Removed the --with-system-root, --with-local-root and --with-network-root options 114@item Removed obsolete variables (deprecated 4 years ago). 115@item A new test framework is included in the pacakge 116@item objc.make deprecated. Use tool.make instead 117@item --enable-absolute-install-paths is now the default on Darwin 118@end itemize 119 120@section Changes in version @samp{2.4.0} 121 122@itemize @bullet 123@item Add --enable-objc-nonfragile-abi flag 124@item New serial-subdirectories.make and parallel-subdirectories.make. 125@item Support for parallel building of subdirectories. 126@item Support for parallel building of different instances. 127@item Support source files in subdirectories without using a subproject. 128@item Support header files in sub-subdirectories. 129@item Batch-compile Java files (much faster). 130@item Changed default compilation flags to -O2 -g. 131@item Fixes for building documentation. 132@item Renamed info files to prevent conflicts. 133@item Updated cygwin support. 134@end itemize 135 136@section Changes in version @samp{2.2.0} 137 138@itemize @bullet 139@item New --with-objc-lib-flag for specifying libobjc. 140@item Automatically uses -lobjc_gc with configured with garbage collection 141@item Parallel building supported using e.g. make -j 2 142@item Use install -p if available. 143@item make uninstall works better now. 144@end itemize 145 146@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.8} 147 148Minor bug fix to deal with installing in different domains 149 150@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.7} 151@itemize @bullet 152@item New configuration file to set default installation 153@item gnustep-make now uses the --no-print-directory flag when invoking make 154@item Files make have same name but different extensions (.c and .m) 155@item Change in path checking algorithm in GNUstep.sh and GNUstep.csh 156@item Test applications linked against gnustep-gui by default 157@end itemize 158 159@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.6} 160 161@itemize @bullet 162@item Fixed some spurious rebuilds of plists, and framework headers. 163@item Added the --enable-absolute-install-paths option for Darwin systems. 164@item Install GNUstep.conf in /etc/GNUstep/GNUstep.conf on all systems. 165@end itemize 166 167@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.5} 168 169@itemize @bullet 170@item Update C++ and ObjC++ support so that g++ and proper flags are automatically used. 171@item Added a new filesystem layout for Apple Mac OS X and use this by default on this system. 172@item NEEDS_GUI variable added to determine linking behavior against gui library. 173@item New option --enable-strict-v2-mode to test for obsolete variables. 174@item ~/GNUstep/GNUstep.sh is no longer sourced. 175@end itemize 176 177@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.4} 178 179Fixed a bug finding relative paths on Windows (during configuration). 180 181@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.3} 182 183New man pages for tools. Better uninstallation of files 184Add Windows installer makefile for Applications. 185 186@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.2} 187 188Update license to GPLv3. 189 190@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.1} 191 192Bug fixes in filesystem layout and framework installation. 193 194@section Changes in version @samp{2.0.0} 195 196The Makefile package has had a major makover which befits a major 197version update. The most user-visible change of this is customized 198filesystem support. GNUstep can now be configured and installed using 199any of many typical filesystem layouts, including FHS, Mac, and the 200traditional GNUstep layout. 201 202Due to this change a number of variable names have been changed or 203deprecated. If you are a developer maintaining makefiles, you should 204check your makefiles for these variables. Most notibly, variables such 205as @samp{GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT} no longer make any sense, as various 206directories that were previously in a traditional GNUstep system root 207directory exist accross multiple directories in disparate places in 208other filesystem layouts. 209 210If you are a user or developer that is just installing GNUstep, read 211the @file{GNUstep-HOWTO} and @file{INSTALL} documents to find out new 212information about configuring and installing make. 213 214If you are a developer, read the files @file{filesystem} and 215@file{make} for information on new and changed variables. Read the 216@file{RELEASENOTES} file for specific changes in this release and updates 217you will need to make with this version of make. 218 219Various changes include (See @file{RELEASENOTES} for more information): 220@itemize @bullet 221 222@item New configure option @samp{--with-layout} to choose different 223filesystem layouts. 224@item All applications use the @samp{.app} extension even when compiled with 225debugging or profiling. 226@item Precompiled header support added using xxx_OBJC_PRECOMPILED_HEADERS. 227@item gnustep-config is a program which prints out information on the 228GNUstep filesystem and variables (Similar to programs like pkg-config). 229@item Better inline messages/help, including printing the version 230of gnustep-make that is being used 231@item Applications can be started now just using their name (by 232installing a wrapper in the tools directory). 233@item Versioning of Microsoft Windows DLLs implemented. 234@item Use of @samp{GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT} and similar variables 235deprecated. 236@item Implement use of GNU standard @samp{DESTDIR} variable. 237@item Object files are now placed in the @file{obj} directory. 238@item Static and profile libraries have the same name as normal libraries. 239@item Support for Admin Tools and Admin Apps directories 240@item RPM support rewritten 241@item Microsoft Windows support updated and extended 242@item Easy consistent way to link non-installed frameworks by using 243-Lpath_to_framework/xxx.framework/$GNUSTEP_TARGET_LDIR 244@item Versioning of library resources 245@item Fixed rebuilding .plist and .palette files 246@end itemize 247 248@section Changes in version @samp{1.13.0} 249 250Debug libraries now have the same name as normal libraries (i.e. no "_d" 251suffix). This reduces the possiblity of multiple libraries being loaded 252into the same executable. 253 254Added dragonfly OS to make targets. 255 256Spaces and backslashes are no longer allowed in paths used by the make 257package (e.g. with Windows OS). The libraries can still use native paths. 258 259@section Changes in version @samp{1.12.0} 260 261Minor fixes. 262 263@section Changes in version @samp{1.11.2} 264 265The @file{GNUstep.conf} file is now viewed as the essential 266determination of the install location for GNUstep libraries, tools and 267other files. During configuration, this file is read, if it exists, to 268determine this information. This can still be overriden with 269environment and command line options, however. See the filesystem 270documentation in the GNUstep Make Documentation directory for more 271information. 272 273You no longer need to source GNUstep.sh in order to compile GNUstep 274programs. All that is needed is the definition of 275GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES. You should also have the GNUstep system tools 276directory in your path. 277 278All netbsd systems are assumed to use ELF libraries. Support for the old 279static libs version of netbsd was removed. 280 281Serveral new options were added to configure to change the location of 282basic dir locations and basic configuration files. Also, the help was 283greatly improved. Note that --prefix=/usr/GNUstep/System no longer 284works. Please use --prefix=/usr/GNUstep or 285--with-system-root=/usr/GNUstep/System. 286 287A few more fixes for cygwin are included as well as Windows resource rules. 288 289Support for ObjC++ has been added. You should list the ObjC++ .mm 290files in the xxx_OBJCC_FILES variable, and put extra ObjC++ flags in 291xxx_OBJCCFLAGS or ADDITIONAL_OBJCCFLAGS. 292 293@section Changes in version @samp{1.11.1} 294 295Part of the previous change was reversed. Now libobjc is still linked 296with individual applications (as well as the base library), since some 297operating systems require this to resolve external symbols. However, 298there is no need to recompile all applications again. 299 300Compilation of GNUstep on cygwin was revampled and fixed due to a lot of 301work by Tom MacSween. 302 303@section Changes in version @samp{1.11.0} 304 305NOTE: The libobjc library is now linked in with the base library and NOT with 306individual applications or tools (except on MingW). This requires that 307you do a complete rebuild of all libraries, tools and apps when switching 308to this new version. 309 310@itemize @bullet 311 312@item New rules for building and using DLLs were implemented. Now gcc 313and other tricks are used to properly export symbols, so no .def file 314should be needed. 315 316@item The GNUsteprc file in $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT is deprecated. See the 317new GNUstep.conf file (which is not installed by default). 318 319@item Psuedo-framwork support was implemented on MingW. This essentially 320involves copying the framework to several places so it can be used without 321links, which Windows does not really support. There's no other 322clean way to do it. 323 324@item Support for xxx_WINDRES_FILES on MinGW was implemented. 325 326@end itemize 327 328@section Changes in version @samp{1.10.0} 329 330@itemize @bullet 331@item a GNUsteprc file is now automatically created and installed in 332$GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, which sets the system-wide default for the user 333root directory (default=~/GNUstep, which can be overriden with the 334@code{--with-user-root} argument to configure, or by modifying GNUsteprc 335after configuration.) 336@item make_services is not run by GNUstep.sh anymore. You must run this 337manually now (see the gnustep-gui documentation). 338@item Palettes use a plist instead of a strings format file now for the 339palette.table file. 340@item You can use the @code{--enable-native-objc-exceptions} argument to 341configure to enable use of built in objc exceptions with compilers that 342support it. 343@end itemize 344 345@section Changes in version @samp{1.9.2} 346 347@itemize @bullet 348@item Application and Bundles use the latest convention on Apple. 349@item Improve/Simplify dependency checking when making docs 350@end itemize 351 352@section Changes in version @samp{1.9.1} 353 354@itemize @bullet 355@item Remove @code{--disable-import} option 356@item README.Darwin for darwin/MacOSX install 357@item Framework version and naming clarified. 358@end itemize 359 360@section Changes in version @samp{1.9.0} 361 362@itemize @bullet 363@item Support for building in a separate build dir. 364@item Add @code{--enable-strip-makefiles} option to configure 365@item List of classes in a framework gets written to the plist file. 366@end itemize 367 368@section Changes in version @samp{1.8.0} 369 370Read the NEWS file for a complete list of changes since the last stable 371release. The major difference from 1.6.0 is that the locations of certain 372directories have changed. Generally this will not cause a problem unless 373your GNUstep directory is shared by multiple machines running this and 374earlier (1.6.x) versions of the software. 375 376@section Changes in version @samp{1.7.4} 377 378Bug fixes. 379 380@section Changes in version @samp{1.7.3} 381 382@itemize @bullet 383@item Adds library combo to Headers directory if not flattened. 384@item Add Markup file (Renaissance) support. 385@end itemize 386 387@section Changes in version @samp{1.7.2} 388 389--enable-flattened (Flat directory structure) is on by default. 390 391@itemize @bullet 392@item On WIN32 use HOMEPATH in preference to USERPROFILE 393@item netbsd and openbsd compile fixes. 394@end itemize 395 396@section Changes in version @samp{1.7.1} 397 398Bug fixes. 399 400@section Changes in version @samp{1.7.0} 401 402This version contains a major change in the location of certain 403directories and installed files as detailed in the @file{filesystem.texi} 404document. When installing this version for the first time, all old 405directories and files in those directories will be moved to the new 406locations automatically. However, you should update all GNUstep versions 407on any machine you have them installed on in order to avoid any 408incompatibilities. 409 410Other changes: 411 412@itemize @bullet 413@item Support for preprocessed Info.plists. 414@end itemize 415 416@section Changes in version @samp{1.6.0} 417 418Make now configures by default for only one system. To compile and run 419GNUstep for multiple platforms from the same directory, use the 420configure argument --enable-multi-platform. 421 422@itemize @bullet 423@item Auto-build def file for DLLs 424@item Work natively on MacOSX systems. Now use apple-apple-apple 425instead of nx-nx-nx on OSX systems. 426@item More efficient checks for re-making a project. 427@end itemize 428 429@section Changes in version @samp{1.5.1} 430 431@itemize @bullet 432@item Framework support rewritten, also supports multiple names. 433@item API change: Replace frameowork's xxx_TOOLS by xxx_COPY_INTO_DIR. 434@item Unified link commands between libraries and frameworks (LIB_LINK_*). 435@item New 'make strings' target for localization support. 436@item Speed improvements. 437@item Doesn't try to build OSX bundle on GNUstep and vice versa. 438@item API change: Tools/Subproj can have resources. 439@item API change: TOOL_INSTALL_DIR. 440@end itemize 441 442@section Changes in version @samp{1.5.0} 443 444@itemize @bullet 445@item Add NetBSD Elf support 446@end itemize 447 448@section Changes in version @samp{1.4.0} 449 450@itemize @bullet 451@item Update Darwin/GNU gcc and Irix targets 452@end itemize 453 454@section Changes in version @samp{1.3.4} 455 456This is a first prerelease version for 1.4. 457 458@itemize @bullet 459@item Use gnugc-gnu-gnu library combo for garbage collecting version. 460@item Add support for --library-combo in opentool 461@item Change GNUSTEP_PATHPREFIX_LIST to GNUSTEP_PATHLIST 462@item Add verbosity levels. Use make messages=yes for full messages. 463@end itemize 464 465@section Changes in version @samp{1.3.3} 466 467@itemize @bullet 468@item Recognizes XXX_STANDARD_INSTALL=no to not do installation. 469@item Updated instructions for MingW/MSYS installation. 470@end itemize 471 472@section Changes in version @samp{1.3.2} 473 474@itemize @bullet 475@item Instructions for building on Windows with MSYS 476@item Resolve library dependencies better on Windows 477@item Fix frameworks in RPMs and DEBs 478@item Continued reorganization. 479@end itemize 480 481@section Changes in version @samp{1.3.0} 482 483The package has gone through an extensive reorganization to break up 484each sub-make into two separate components. This allows for much 485simplified code and lots of code sharing between components. As a side 486effect, it also increased the speed of the code by at least a factor of 4872. 488 489@itemize @bullet 490@item Force shared=yes for cygwin and mingw 491@item Bundles copy resources from subprojects. 492@item Better resource management. Resources handled accross all project types. 493@item Simplified and fixed user root location between make and base libraries. 494@item Changed Apps directory to Applications 495@item Fixes for MacOSX, MingW 496@end itemize 497 498@section Changes in version @samp{1.2.1} 499 500@itemize @bullet 501@item the source distribution code has been rewritten to be more general 502and extended. Packages built using gnustep-make now automatically 503have handy targets building tarballs from sources or from CVS imports. 504@item implemented support for auto-dependencies, which means that any object 505file automatically depends on all the header files which were used to 506build it. Only works with newer compilers. 507@item implemented INSTALL_AS_USER and INSTALL_AS_GROUP. 508@item implemented a strip=yes option. 509@item various bug fixes and minor improvements. 510@end itemize 511 512@section Changes in version @samp{1.2.0} 513 514@itemize @bullet 515@item The core rules and internals of gnustep-make have been fundamentally 516redesigned and rewritten. notably, gnustep-make now works using only 517a single recursive sub-make invocation rather than two, which makes 518it consistently faster and simpler in all circumstances. 519@item The clean rules have been heavily optimized - they no longer use 520recursive sub-make invocations at all and so they are really fast. 521@item Many improvements to java support. Optimized management of nested classes 522@item Better conformance to make conventions. 523@item File specific compilation flags 524@item Fixed darwin support 525@item Support for C++ files. 526@item Made use of library installation dir consistent with other installation. 527@item Much improved Windows path support 528@end itemize 529 530@section Changes in version @samp{1.0.1} 531 532@itemize @bullet 533@item Support for Java tools. 534@item Build GUI backend as a bundle (default). 535@item Remove backend part of LIBRARY_COMBO. 536@item Fixes to run on FreeBSD, Solaris. 537@end itemize 538 539@section Changes in version @samp{1.0.0} 540 541@itemize @bullet 542@item Optimizations that in many cases more than double the speed. 543@item Added preliminary darwin support. 544@item rpm packeing improvements. 545@item Better checking for mingw and cygwin 546@end itemize 547 548@section Changes in version @samp{0.9.2} 549 550@itemize @bullet 551@item HOWTO and faq files moved from core package to here 552@item Configurable GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT and GNUSTEP_NETWORK_ROOT 553@end itemize 554 555@section Changes in version @samp{0.9.1} 556 557Make has been reoganized so that it only relies on libraries and other things 558that are necessary for the Makefile package itself. Any libraries wanting to 559add extra package information can do so by installing a make stub in the 560@file{Additional} directory. This greatly simplifies compilation and packaging. 561 562@itemize @bullet 563@item Javadoc support added. 564@item debian directory added for dpkg 565@item RPM support rewritten from scratch. 566@end itemize 567 568@section Changes in version @samp{0.9.0} 569 570ffcall library is highly recommended for use with the GNUstep base 571library. You need to have installed it prior to configuring the Makefile 572package. See the INSTALL file. 573 574@itemize @bullet 575@item Support for automatically generating RPM spec files. 576@item Build suitable files for MacOS bundles 577@item Add option for flattened directory structure. 578@item LaText documentation support. 579@item Added support for Frameworks 580@end itemize 581 582@section Noteworthy changes in version @samp{0.6.6} 583 584The GNUstep system libraries are now installed in a separate system root 585directory (default /usr/GNUstep/System) rather than the GNUstep 586root directory (default /usr/GNUstep). You can revert to the old behavior 587using a configure option @samp{--without-system-root}. We also recommend 588removing any previous GNUstep versions before installing the new one in order 589to avoid problems with the system finding the correct binary and/or library. 590 591@itemize @bullet 592@item Support for Windows compilation (cygwin and mingw) and DLL creation 593and usage. 594@item Java support rewritten and extended. 595@end itemize 596 597@end ifclear 598@c end ifclear ANNOUNCE-ONLY 599