Date:  Tue, 02 Apr 2019 03:37:14 -0400
From:  <feedback at os2voice dot org>
Subject:  [VOICENWS] SW: libc, cube, ncftp, tcl, openjpeg2, pthread, libcx, rpm

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From: silvan.scherrerDESPAM at DESPAMaroa.ch

*libc, cube, ncftp, tcl, openjpeg2, pthread, libcx, rpm//
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We released version 1:0.1.1-1 of libc, version 3.0-1 of cube (REXX procedure used to modify a CONFIG.SYS-like ASCII file), version 3.2.6-6 of ncftp (Improved console FTP client), version 8.5.9-4 of tcl (Tool Command Language, pronounced tickle), version 2.3.0-2 of openjpeg2 (C-Library for JPEG 2000), version 2:0.1-1 of pthread (A posix pthread emulation for OS/2 and OS/2 based systems), version 0.6.5-1 of libcx (kLIBC Extension Library), version 4.13.0-18 of rpm (The RPM package management system)
It is uploaded as rpm to the netlabs rel or exp repository. To install just use either yum or ANPM. If anyone prefers a zip file, those are available at the netlabs rel repo http://rpm dot netlabs dot org/release/00/zip> or at the netlabs exp repo http://rpm dot netlabs dot org/experimental/00/zip>.  

What's new in libc:  

 * Fix failures to fork children from drive root directory [#31]
 * Silence emxomf warnings not fixable by programmer [#32]  

What's new in cube:  

 * fixes ticket #2 (courtesy of RLW)  

What's new in ncftp:  

 * rebuild with latest macros.bww
 * rebuild with latext libc and libcx
 * better version to find sa_family  

What's new in tcl:  

 * reworked fd handling in the mkstemp() case, to make it work
 * create a nice bldlevel
 * rebuild with latest scm_macros
 * remove the dll from the devel rpm
 * add debug package  

What's new in openjpeg2:  

 * disable sse, as it crashed on some systems  

What's new in pthread:  

 * Bump epoch to 2 to replace bulky versioning scheme with normal one
 * Implement key destructors [#182]
 * Make pthread_join survive kLIBC signal delivery
 * Build against LIBCn (kLIBC successor)  

What's new in libcx:  

 * mmap: Implement thread-safe concurrent access to file-based mappings
 [#68]
 * Build against LIBCn (kLIBC successor)  

What's new in rpm:  

 * add buildlevel string
 * fix ticket #333  

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