[MiNT] MiNTLib 0.51

["Guido Flohr" <gufl0000@stud.uni-sb.de>]

Hi!

The MiNTLib 0.51 has been uploaded to (either)

	ftp://ftp.uni-giessen.de/pub/atari/incoming

resp. (if Bjoern is faster than you) to:

	ftp://ftp.uni-giessen.de/pub/atari/programming/mintlib

You will find the sources in
	
	mintlib-0.51.tar.gz

and precompiled libs and binaries in

	mintlib-0.51-bin.tar.gz

If you already have the sources of 0.50.1 you can pick up an update patch
instead:

	mintlib-0.50.1-0.51.patch.gz
	README-about-patches.

New features:

* time zone database included
* Bug fixes
* GNU regex, globbing, pattern matching, all slightly adapted to Atari
* GNU getopt
  ATTENTION:  By default the library will use GNU getopt now.  For
  shareware or commercial stuff #define AVOID_GPL (see header file
  and ChangeLog/NEWS for details) to link against the old PD version.
* GNU error
* Installation script "libinstall" (for bin-dist or if "make install"
  fails).
* ... see NEWS and ChangeLog.

The lib also contains a completely rewritten tzinit program.  However I
regret that now a little.  Try it, if it sucks, let me know and downgrade
to the old version.  The "new" tzinit will get installed in /usr/local/bin
resp. /usr/bin, backup your old version before installation.

LAST-MINUTE-README:
When editing "configvars" take care that there is NO whitespace
surrounding the equal sign, i. e. "FOOBAR=blahblah" and NOT 
"FOOBAR = blahblah".

Ciao

Guido

P.S.: If somebody volunteers to transfer the tz database package into a
separate distribution (preferably extractable from an up-to-date MiNTLib
distribution) go ahead.  This database will get more and more important
also for non-programmers because all programs linked against MiNTLib >PL48
will silently use it.
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