The following are the changes in this release:
Fixed typo (missing quotes) in the env rule.
Fixed intendation problem in CHANGES.
Combined 2.12.9.1 changes into the 2.12.8.2 to 2.12.9.0
range, and thus renamed the range to 2.12.8.2 to 2.12.9.1.
Fixed issues related to building Makefile.simple.
Fixed how the Makefile variable MANPATH is set for macOS.
Added a bunch of information to the near bottom of HOWTO.INSTALL
on calc Makefiles. This information discusses the various
Makefiles found in the calc source.
Added comments in various calc Makefiles about their origin.
In particular, for Makefiles that are constructed such as
Makefile.simple, custom/Makefile and custom/Makefile.simple
there are comments about how they were made.
For all calc Makefiles, including those in sub-directories,
near the top there is now a line of the form:
# SRC: ... some message about the origin ...
Fixed how the calc(1) man page is installed under macOS.
Fixed how calc man page in ${CATDIR} is formed.
Fixed how Makefile.simple is formed.
Fixed the #! calc script argument processing. The initial #!
line must end in a -f. For example, if calc is in /usr/local/bin/calc,
then the following would be the first line of a calc script:
#!/usr/local/bin/calc -f
...
It is common that -q be usde with a calc script, so assuming the
same /usr/local/bin/calc path:
#!/usr/local/bin/calc -q -f
...
Use of -s in the #! first line of a calc script is not needed
since -f implies -f.
The argv() will now return values more typical of C's main().
Before it returned one less than the number of arguments. Now,
for example, when calc is given 2 args, argv() will return 3.
The value of argv(0) will be the path to calc, or in the
case of a #! calc cscript, it will return the name of the script.
Updated the calc man page and help/argv to reflect the
above changes.
Improved the formatting of the calc man page.
Fixed the formation of the win32 sub-directory via the win32_hsrc
Makefile rule.
Due to incompatible changes to the argv() function, and #! calc
scripts, we are setting the version to the next minor number:
2.13.0
Fixed a mistake in "help intro" where some inserted text
changed the value of "." and thus made the next result
incorrect.
Clarified in "help factor" that 1 is returned if no
factor below the limit was found.
Removed Makefile variable ${MAKEFILE_REV}.
The missing cscript/square.calc file has been restored.
Fixed compiler errors and warnings related to GCC.
In particular, gcc/9.3.1 and gcc/10.2.1 now compile
calc without any compiler errors or warnings,
even with -Werror -Wextra -pedantic.
To print out information about the calc compliation
environment, we added the following make rule:
make calcinfo
Improved how 'make debug' operates.
Moved help/contrib to CONTRIB-CODE. The help/contrib file
is now build from a copy of CONTRIB-CODE.
Created a new calc bug report Email address. Created a new calc
question Email address. Created a new calc contribution Email
address. See the BUGS file for details.
Added "help questions" to print the QUESIONS help file.
If the environment variable $CALCHELP is defined and is non-empty,
then calc help files will be in the direcgory by the $CALCHISTFILE
environment variable.
If the environment variable $CALCCUSTOMHELP is defined and is
non-empty, then custom calc help files will be in the direcgory
by the $CALCCUSTOMHELP environment variable.
The calc-tester mailing list has been retired. See:
* How to submit a calc bug report:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-bugrept.html
* How to contribute code to calc:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-contrib.html
* How to submit a question about calc:
http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/calc-question.html
By default, the calc history file is located in ~/.calc_history.
Now, if the environment variable $CALCHISTFILE is defined
and is non-empty, then calc history file will be defined
by the $CALCHISTFILE environment variable.
Some folks might think: “you still use RCS”?!? And we will say,
hey, at least we switched from SCCS to RCS back in … I think it was
around 1994 ... at least we are keeping up! :-) :-) :-)
Logs say that SCCS version 18 became RCS version 19 on 1994 March 18.
RCS served us well. But now it is time to move on. And so we are
switching to git.
Calc releases produce a lot of file changes. In the 125 releases
of calc since 1996, when I started managing calc releases, there
have been 15473 file mods!
