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 GNU shtool -- The GNU Portable Shell Tool
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 ChangeLog

 Changes between 1.4.5 and 1.4.6 (28-Jul-1999 to 05-Sep-1999):

   *) Fixed manual page sections in Makefile.in.
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

   *) Accept `tarcust' in addition to `tardy' in sh.tarball.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added hint to `shtoolize' to INSTALL document.
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

   *) Added support for AmigaOS to sh.guessos
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Replace bars (`|') by slashes (`/') in sh.guessos' fallback
      result string to avoid problems in GNU libtool.
      [Kriton Kyrimis <kyrimis@cti.gr>]

 Changes between 1.4.4 and 1.4.5 (17-Jul-1999 to 28-Jul-1999):

   *) Added a shtool.m4 which provides an AC_PROG_SHTOOL macro to GNU
      Autoconf. This is installed in $datadir/aclocal/ so it can be picked up
      by Autoconf's aclocal command.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added `uninstall' target to Makefile.in
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Source tree adjustments to comply more to the GNU standards: Added
      AUTHORS file; renamed CHANGES to ChangeLog and CREDITS to THANKS.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added `make check' as an alias for `make test'
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.4.3 and 1.4.4 (11-Jul-1999 to 17-Jul-1999):

   *) Added a new `shtool tarball' command for rolling 
      nice distribution tarballs.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed usage message of shtoolize.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Adjusted IRIX detection in sh.guessos.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Allow shtool to recognize symlinks to itself with the name of 
      the shtool command like in `ln -s shtool install'.  
      This is useful for emulation situations.
      [Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>, Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 (09-Jul-1999 to 11-Jul-1999):

   *) Fix the `a _directory_ named perl5 exists in $PATH' problem
      also for `shtool path -m perl'.
      [Justin Leonard Tripp <justin@ee.byu.edu>]

   *) Mention in the manual page that the order of documentation follows the
      order of the modules in the generated script and that this order is
      sorted by _topic_.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.4.1 and 1.4.2 (07-Jul-1999 to 09-Jul-1999):

   *) Removed residual shebang lines on sh.* scripts.
      [Gopal Narayanan <gopal@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu>]

   *) Enhanced sh.guessos for more granular GNU/Linux detection.  This
      especially fixes problems when using the guessed id with libtool.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]
   
   *) Enhanced `shtool scpp': The generated function prototypes now
      no longer contain the argument names to avoid namespace conflicts
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed shtoolize.in: The chown() has to use $opt_o
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

 Changes between 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 (02-Jul-1999 to 07-Jul-1999):

   *) Cleaned up usage messages.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall, Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

   *) Updated and cleaned up shtool.pod
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added shtool -d for enabling shell trace information.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Renamed shtool.gen to shtoolize.in and enhanced it to become the new
      build frontend which now is also installed and can be used by developers
      to build individual shtool scripts (which contain only a subset of the
      functionality in case the developer doesn't need all functionality in
      his source tree).
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>, Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Made sh.scpp more robust on brain-dead platforms where their `awk' is to
      weak for the used Awk script.  Instead we now search for gawk, then nawk
      and finally for awk before using it.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall, Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@MchP.Siemens.De>]

   *) Be more friendly to developers and require only Autoconf 2.12
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

   *) Fixed typos related to `separate'.
      [Martin Kraemer <Martin.Kraemer@MchP.Siemens.De>]

 Changes between 1.3.3 and 1.4.0 (01-Jul-1999 to 02-Jul-1999):

   *) Fixed `shtool arx' command: it expected one argument too much,
      shifted one argument too much and wasn't aware of `arx x lib.a'.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed `shtool echo -n' variant: Now Awk is only used as a fallback,
      because it complains about some \xx sequences and there is no $seo for
      Awk :-( [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added the first cut for a shtool test suite under `make test'.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Additionally try `tput sgr0' to reset bold mode in sh.echo
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

   *) Fix initializations for `bptype' variable in sh.version
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr>]

   *) Globally cleaned up -v (verbose), -d (debug) and -t (trace) options:
      - Added -v (verbose) and -t (trace) options to "shtool move"
      - Added -v (verbose) and -t (trace) options to "shtool install"
      - Added -t (trace) option to "shtool mkdir"
      - Renamed -v option to -t (trace) option for "shtool mkln"
      - Renamed -d option to -t (trace) option for "shtool mkshadow"
      - Added -t (trace) option to "shtool fixperm"
      - Renamed -v option to -t (trace) option for "shtool arx"
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed a path construction bug in "shtool install" and
      added more error escapes
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Removed remaining trailing whitespaces from scripts
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.3.2 and 1.3.3 (28-Jun-1999 to 01-Jul-1999):

   *) Cleaned up usage of IFS and removed explicit default IFS
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Removed trailing whitespaces from all scripts
      [Ralf S. Engelschall, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer
      <markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>]

   *) Fixed error status handling in sh.move 
      [Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer <markus.oberhumer@jk.uni-linz.ac.at>]

 Changes between 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 (28-Jun-1999 to 28-Jun-1999):

   *) Fixed a portability problem under SysV shells inside the source tree:
      the sh.xxxx scripts have to include sh.common via ``. ./sh.common''
      instead of just ``. sh.common'' in order to find sh.common in the 
      source tree while bootstrapping. 
      [Ralf S. Engelschall, Lars Hecking <lhecking@nmrc.ucc.ie>]

 Changes between 1.3.0 and 1.3.1 (25-Jun-1999 to 28-Jun-1999):

   *) Fixed directory checks in mkshadow command [Ralf S. Engelschall, 
      Evgeny Stambulchik <fnevgeny@plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il>]

   *) Added -d (debug) and -a (symlink all) options to mkshadow command.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.9 and 1.3.0 (02-Jun-1999 to 25-Jun-1999):

   *) Fixed handling of 'date +%y' fallback in sh.echo and sh.version
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Enhanced sh.echo's bold terminal sequence determination
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Written a completely new and more sophisticated option parsing code
      which can be shared by all tools (sh.common).
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Completely overhauled all scripts and this way fixed a few bugs. But
      especially all scripts now use the new option parsing code.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Changed distribution license from BSD-style to GPL, but with an
      important exception which is similar to libtool.  This way all
      advertisement clauses are gone and shtool is protected better.
      Nevertheless the resulting shtool script can be used in _ANY_ software
      package source tree.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added a new "shtool mdate" command for finding out and pretty-printing
      the last modification date of a file or dir.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Cleaned up usage descriptions
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Moved to the new official state of a GNU program, renamed
      LICENSE to COPYING, etc.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed problems with brain-dead Awks in sh.echo
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed problems with sed commands in sh.echo
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.8 and 1.2.9 (28-May-1999 to 02-Jun-1999):

   *) Fixed sh.echo (awk needs EOF on stdin)
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed "tr"-stuff again in sh.version
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added even more background details to shtool.pod
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added INSTALL document
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.7 and 1.2.8 (14-May-1999 to 28-May-1999):

   *) Added a nifty sh.scpp for supporting library writing
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed AIX determination in sh.guessos
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Optimized sh.echo's bold stuff
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 (13-May-1999 to 14-May-1999):

   *) Enhanced sh.guessos: Include release/version information for NetBSD,
      OSF/1 and IRIX. Additionally extracted the shorter machine id for AIX.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.5 and 1.2.6 (12-May-1999 to 13-May-1999):

   *) Added leading underscores in AS_HEADER and defines 
      used in the generated file of sh.version
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Fixed shtool message "Run ... -h"
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added -s (silent) option to sh.fixperm and
      made it's test -x portable as in sh.path
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Kicked out Apache-hack for Solaris detection in sh.guessos
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Merge into sh.guessos the BSDI 3.x and MacOS X support from AG
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.4 and 1.2.5 (11-May-1999 to 12-May-1999):

   *) Removed Apache relicts in sh.mkshadow: apaci, etc.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Cleanups to Makefile.in 
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr]

   *) Additional initializations for sh.version 
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr]

   *) Allow env vars $TMPDIR and $TEMPDIR to override /tmp 
      in sh.version and sh.path.
      [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr]

 Changes between 1.2.3 and 1.2.4 (06-May-1999 to 11-May-1999):

   *) Fixed shtool.pod: move -m => move -e
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Replaced \$ (an escaped dollar as text) in sh.version with $/ (an dollar
      for "ident" and a harmless variable expansion for Perl itself), because
      RCS' ident dislikes \$. [Denis Barbier <barbier@imacs.polytechnique.fr]
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.2 and 1.2.3 (05-May-1999 to 06-May-1999):

   *) Fixed `tr' portability bug by avoiding character ranges.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall, Dean Gaudet <dgaudet@arctic.org>]

   *) Make sure `shtool path' doesn't create paths with doubled slashes
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Started a CREDITS file for keeping track of the contributors.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added -e (expand) feature to `shtool move' (similar to mmv)
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Require the preserved mode of `shtool move' to have option -p
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.1 and 1.2.2 (29-Apr-1999 to 05-May-1999):

   *) Added "-e <ext>" to sh.install
      [Ralf S. Engelschall, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna@efn.org>]

   *) Fixed shtool generation: comments for version output was wrong
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Cleaned up sh.path "-x" test: no need for shebang and absolute /bin/sh
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Finally renamed "shtool version -v" to "shtool version -s" (s = set)
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 (29-Apr-1999 to 29-Apr-1999):

   *) Extended the shtool.pod manual page to cover additional details
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Cleaned up shtool.gen script
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Updated README and changed official name to "Portable Shell Tool"
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Inserted shtool into a CVS repository
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.1.0 and 1.2.0 (26-Apr-1999 to 29-Apr-1999):

   *) Added new ``arx'' tool for archiving libs in libs
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added new ``mkln'' tool for creating relative symlinks
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) The script order of the shtool ingredients is now preserved
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Changed "VERSION" to "shtool" in `shtool version' headers
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between 1.0.0 and 1.1.0 (22-Apr-1999 to 26-Apr-1999):

   *) Cleaned up the usage page of shtool
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Written a complete documentation as a Unix manual page shtool(1)
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Renamed sh.ppl to sh.table and sh.newvers to sh.version
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Created a new sh.move tool
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Merged sh.info into sh.echo
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Merged sh.findprg, sh.findperl, sh.findcpp and sh.fp2rp into a new
      sh.path tool. Additionally sh.path now contains the functionality of
      dirname(1) and basename(1).
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added Makefile.in for building shtool & shtool.1 and installing it
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Renamed *.sh to sh.*
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Added GNU Autoconf environment for perl and pod2man
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

 Changes between *GENESIS* and 1.0.0 (22-Apr-1999):

   *) Added Apache's GuessOS as sh.guessos
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]

   *) Created the first shtool package by collecting all
      scripts I've written over the last years for various
      Open Source packages.
      [Ralf S. Engelschall]
