Posted on Tue Jan 2, 2018
I maintain (although not with timely updates) some C language libraries repackaging with the purpose of using the gnu Autotools everywhere. I have some shell scripts, for personal use, that automatically build a Slackware package from a build tree using the gnu Autotools, and I cannot live without the ’tools.
So today (early morning, before sunrise, is maybe the best part of the day) I have
updated the repackaging of re2, the
regular expressions library from Google; a
release tarball is available.
For this occasion, I bumped the version number to 2018.1.1, which matches the
“version number” of the upstream distribution, which is simply the date of the
release. I have pushed the appropriate update to the
Travis CI configuration of the project
CRE2, so it gets tested with the latest
release from re2: it looks fine.
I should have also updated my LAPACK repackaging, which was called atlapack,
but I realised today that the upstream maintainers have moved development to
Github. This is good! So now I
should really clone their project and continue the ’tools work on a public branch in
my clone. This will require some time, because I have to rethink things and maybe
automate the updating process. The old atlapack project will be deleted,
farewell…