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Re: release-0.7-rc1 announcement suggestions


Hi Dave,

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 12:10 -0500, David Smith wrote:
> A minor nit - I'd change the above to:
> 
> - Globals now accept ';' terminators, e.g.:
>     global odds, evens;
>     global little[10], big[5];
> 
> No big deal, but when I read that the first time I thought the
> semi-colon was part of the text.  Indenting the examples makes it a bit
> more clear also.

Good point, changed.

> > - Configure now accepts --enable-staticdw, which alters the link
> >   settings so they work with static libdw.
> 
> This was true, but no longer.  If I'm not mistaken, the
> '--enable-staticdw' configure option is now gone (the configure script
> automatically figures this out now).

Right. I changed it to the more generic:

  - There is no need anymore for a separate/bundled elfutils. Any recent
    elfutils installed on an up to date GNU/Linux distro should be
    detected and used automatically by configure.

Thanks,

Mark


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