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-rw-r--r--INSTALL6
-rw-r--r--NEWS8
-rw-r--r--doc/upgrade.html2
4 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 286a0cc..34ab003 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ Contributors:
Olivier Brunel <jjk@jjacky.com>
Lionel Van Bemten <lionel.van_bemten@nokia.com>
Rasmus Villemoes <rv@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
+ Jesse Young <jlyo@jlyo.org>
+ 7heo <7heo@mail.com>
+
Thanks to:
Jean Marot <jean.marot@skarnet.org>
diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index ece261f..f17e2b3 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ POSIX.1-2008, available at:
It will install the static libraries in /usr/lib/skalibs, the shared
libraries in /lib, and the sysdeps in /usr/lib/skalibs/sysdeps.
+ Please note that static libraries in /usr/lib/skalibs *will not*
+be found by a default linker invocation: you need -L/usr/lib/skalibs.
+Other skarnet.org software automatically handles that case if the
+default configuration is used, but if you change the configuration,
+remember to use the appropriate --with-lib configure option.
+
You can strip the libraries of their extra symbols via "make strip"
before the "make install" phase. It will shave a few bytes off them.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1e9d1e3..c5f2e8e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,12 +3,14 @@ Changelog for skalibs.
In 2.6.0.0
----------
- - Bugfixes. New unixmessage_receiver_hasmsginbuf() function to address
-an issue in unixmessage_handle().
+ - Bugfixes.
+ - New unixmessage_receiver_hasmsginbuf() function to address an issue
+in unixmessage_handle().
- fd_close() now returns void. This mandates a major version bump.
- new skalibs_setgroups(), setgroups_with_egid() and setgroups_and_gid()
functions to work around supplementary group mismanagement in... can you
-guess what operating system? You get 3 tries.
+guess what operating system? (You get 3 tries.)
+
In 2.5.1.1
----------
diff --git a/doc/upgrade.html b/doc/upgrade.html
index 3267e81..54ac1dc 100644
--- a/doc/upgrade.html
+++ b/doc/upgrade.html
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
<tt>skalibs_setgroups()</tt>, <tt>setgroups_with_egid()</tt>,
<tt>setgroups_and_gid()</tt>. The <tt>setgroups_and_gid()</tt>
function is the one that should be used, if possible: it does the
-right thing even on the BSDs. </li>
+right thing even on the BSDs. (That's an achievement.) </li>
</ul>
<h2> in 2.5.1.1 </h2>