%% /u/ftp/pub/lcc/README.PATCHES, Fri Sep 21 07:50:53 2001
%% Edit by Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>

The autoconfigurized development releases of lcc-4.1.beta.nnn are
expected to remain stable for long periods while collaborative work is
in progress on the next release.

From time to time, we may release interim updates to a base release
that solve a problem for a particular platform, or fix an obscure bug
that applies only to certain systems.

There are currently two such patches available for
lcc-4.1.beta.8. They may be applied like this:

	cd /YOUR/LCC/SOURCE/DIRECTORY/TREE
	tar xfz /WHEREEVER/YOU/DOWNLOADED/THE/DISTRIBUTION/lcc-4.1.beta.8.tar.gz
	patch -p 0 < /WHEREEVER/YOU/DOWNLOADED/THE/DISTRIBUTION/lcc-4.1.beta.8.patch.1
	patch -p 0 < /WHEREEVER/YOU/DOWNLOADED/THE/DISTRIBUTION/lcc-4.1.beta.8.patch.1

patch.1 updates etc/x86/freebsd.c to correct default search paths and
predefined variables, while patch.2 fixes a bug in cpp/macro.c that
hits systems that store constant strings in read-only memory.

These patches do NOT currently change the version number or date, so
there is no record in the installed programs of which patches have
been applied.  That deficiency should be remedied in the next major
development release.

RedHat GNU/Linux 6.2 (Compaq/DEC Alpha, IBM PowerPC, Intel x86, Sun
SPARC, and likely, others) has /usr/bin/patch, version 2.5, but a more
recent version is available at

	ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.5.4.tar.gz

It is easily installed on most UNIX/POSIX/GNU systems by

	tar xfz patch-2.5.4.tar.gz
	cd patch-2.5.4
	./configure && make all check install

Commercial UNIX systems come with patch too, although sometimes the
versions are rather old.

	Apple Darwin (MacOS 10)			/usr/bin/patch	17-Apr-2001, version 2.5.4
	Compaq Alpha		OSF/1 5.0	/bin/patch	20-Jul-1999, version 2.0.1.6 (OSF/1 version 1.0)
	Compaq/DEC Alpha	OSF/1 4.0	/bin/patch	12-Apr-1999, version 2.0.1.6 (OSF/1 version 1.0)
	HP 9000/712		HP-UX 10.20	/bin/patch	10-Jun-1996, version 76.1 95/10/18
	HP/Intel IA-64		GNU/Linux 2.2.17-14smp (Red Hat 6.2) [via HP NUE emulator on IA-32]
						/usr/bin/patch	18-Jun-1999, version 2.5
	IBM PowerPC		AIX 4.2		/bin/patch	19-Feb-1997, version 2.0.1.6 (AIX)
	IBM S/390 9762 G6 Model ZX7
	    GNU/Linux 2.2.16	    		/usr/bin/patch	4-Nov-2000, version 2.5.3 
	IBM SP/2		AIX 4.3.2.0	/bin/patch	14-Jul-1999, version 2.0.1.6 (AIX)
	Intel Pentium II	FreeBSD 4.1.1	/usr/bin/patch	20-Nov-2000, version 2.1
	SGI			IRIX 6.5	/usr/sbin/patch	4-Nov-1999, version 2.1
	Sun			Solaris 2.7	/bin/patch 	6-Oct-1998, no version number
	Sun			Solaris 2.8	/bin/patch 	5-Jan-2000, no version number