diff: NEWS for 0.7.3
Fergus Henderson
fjh at mundook.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Sat Nov 1 04:18:27 AEDT 1997
Tyson Richard DOWD <trd at cs.mu.oz.au> writes:
>Well, the consequences are more than this - lp_solve is also
>no longer part of the distribution.
>
>Did you want to document a little more on the bugs that were fixed?
>(Just so people know whether they are bugs that are likely to affect
>them).
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NEWS for Mercury release 0.7.3
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-This release is primarily a bug-fix release.
+This release is primarily a bug-fix release. The problems fixed
+include installation problems on Windows, some problems with the
+profiler, and compatibility with GNU Make versions >= 3.76.
But as well as bug fixes, there are a few minor improvements:
* The profiler now allows you to merge profiling data from multiple runs.
@@ -194,7 +196,8 @@
See the "Profiling" section of the Mercury User's Guide,
or the man page for `mprof_merge_runs'.
-* Termination analysis no longer uses the `lp_solve' package.
+* Termination analysis no longer uses the `lp_solve' package,
+ so we have removed it from the distribution.
This avoids some portability problems and some copyright issues
(the `lp_solve' package had a quite restrictive license).
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