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** Summary of user-visible changes:
-
+ -- Motif is now deprecated on linux and cygwin.
+ -- On UNIX and linux, '--with-widgets=no' is now the default. If
+ you want buffer tabs or the progress bar, you must run configure
+ with the option '--with-widgets=lucid' or a different toolkit.
+ -- PUI related changes (Package User Interface)
+ - A minor rearrangement of the "Tools -> Packages" menu.
+ - Only a single package download site can be selected.
+ - Managing packages via the `customize' interface is no longer
+ supported.
+ - Non-Mule XEmacsen can not install Mule packages.
+ - The "mule-base" package is not needed to "bootstrap" PUI for
+ Mule enabled XEmacsen.
+ - The default for PGP verifying the package-index file is "off" in
+ 21.4.
+ - The default package-index filename has changed to
+ `package-index.LATEST.gpg'.
+ - The location of the local index file is customisable. See
+ `package-get-package-index-file-location'.
+ - `pui-add-install-directory' has been obsoleted and replaced by
+ `pui-set-local-package-get-directory'.
-- The delete key now deletes forward by default.
-- Shifted motion keys now select text by default.
-- You can now build XEmacs with support for GTK+ widget set.
- In Perl, the --globals option tags global variables.
- Python now supported.
- New file extensions recognized: .ss, .pdb, .psw.
+ -- Fixed ldap libraries configuration.
+ -- Fixed `LDAP_OPT_ON' libraries configuration.
** The delete key now deletes forward by default.
.ss files are Scheme files, .pdb is Postscript with C syntax, .psw is
for PSWrap.
+** Fixed ldap libraries configuration.
+
+It used to fail when `-lldap' requires `-llber'. Introduced in
+upstream `configure.in' revision 1.151.2.31 (2005/01/31 02:54:47 +0).
+
+*** Fixed `LDAP_OPT_ON' libraries configuration.
+
+The original fix of local `configure.in' revision 1.19 (2004/12/19
+21:10:02 +0) introduced lossage on another class of systems. In some
+openldap versions `ldap_*' functions may link successfully without
+`-lber', but compiling and linking program with `LDAP_OPT_ON' may
+require `-lber'. When configuring ldap libraries, check for such
+systems, and in a cleaner way than in upstream.
+
\f
* Lisp and internal changes in XEmacs 21.4
==========================================
-** A new portable dumper is available for beta testing.
+** A new portable dumper is available.
Olivier Galibert has written a portable dumper for XEmacs, based on
-initial work by Kyle Jones. To perform even the most basic editor,
-XEmacs requires some amount of Lisp code to be loaded. To avoid
-repeating the expensive loading process at every startup, XEmacs is
-built in a special way. Its C sources link into an executable called
-`temacs', which loads the bootstrap Lisp code and uses a special
-"unexec" call to dump the resulting memory image into a proper
+initial work by Kyle Jones. To perform even the most basic editor
+functions, XEmacs requires some amount of Lisp code to be loaded. To
+avoid repeating the expensive loading process at every startup, XEmacs
+is built in a special way. Its C sources link into an executable
+called `temacs', which loads the bootstrap Lisp code and uses a
+special "unexec" call to dump the resulting memory image into a proper
`xemacs' executable on disk. The unexec() process is hard to
implement correctly and makes XEmacs very hard to port to new
operating systems, or even to new releases of old systems.
to the initialized data. In that scheme, there is no difference
between `temacs' and `xemacs'.
-Unfortunately, the portable dumper has not been completely finished
-for this release, and will not be used by default. However, if you
-wish to experiment with it, or if you need to compile XEmacs on a new
-and unsupported platform, you can test it by configuring XEmacs with
-`--pdump' flag.
+The portable dumper will not be used by default in this release,
+however, if you wish to experiment with it, or if you need to compile
+XEmacs on a new and unsupported platform, you can test it by
+configuring XEmacs using the `--pdump' flag.
** Much effort has been invested to make XEmacs Lisp faster:
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