[Linux-decnet-user] latd 1.17 released

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

This is a major release in some sense, though a lot of you may not notice.

The big change is that latd now runs on NetBSD and Darwin as well as Linux, and
a consequence of this is that it now uses GNU autoconf to build, so if you want
to compile from sources you will need to

./configure && make

rather than just "make" as before. This is unlikely to happen to the DECnet
progs BTW as they are not going to be portable any time soon.

A huge thanks to Matthew Fredette of NetBSD for doing the NetBSD port and much
of the autoconf work. I have put further work into integrate his changes (which
were made to quite an old version of latd) and also used his work to port to
Darwin so it now runs on my laptop :-)

Currently, it will compile but not run on FreeBSD because of an error setting up
the multicast address, if anyone knows how to fix this then please let me know.

The changelog is below, there are some bugs fixed too, so even if you don't care
about non-Linux platforms it's probably still worth upgrading.

  * Add support for a MOPRC_INTERFACE env variable.
  * Fix bug in the lastest retransmit code that screwed up
    queued connections rather badly.
  * Don't show status messages to /dev/lat ports
  * moprc is now a C++ program that uses the LATinterfaces class.
  * llogin -p only locks devices if liblockdev is found
  * Porting work for *BSD and Darwin.
    HUGE thanks to Matthew Fredette of NetBSD for all the bpf work.
  * Use autoconf to configure and build. Again Matthew Fredette did
    most of the work for this, but I added the Linux bits.

If you have any comments on the new build system (like it fails for you!) please
let me know.

-- 

patrick