dss, branch pu

Switch back to variadic log macros.

2025-03-23T18:13:50Z

This essentially reverts commit 66cdd5bc99a5 which aimed to make the dss log facility C89 conform. While this was a worthwhile goal in 2012, it has little value today, since in 2025 we can safely assume a C99 compliant compiler. The patch was created with git revert -Xours 66cdd5bc followed by manual tweaks to make it compile again.

Dedoxify the source.

2025-02-01T19:11:59Z

The doxygen comments actually make the source code harder to read, because they tend to document the obvious. Besides, they are not used uniformly accross the code base anyway.

dss-1.0.2.

2024-08-08T14:12:42Z

New subcommand: help.

2024-07-18T12:36:40Z

It's sometimes handy to just type e.g. "dss help run" to see the synopsis and the options of the ls subcommand.

Provide a static binary.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

For users which can't be bothered to use git or compile from source.

build: Move m4-only definitions to separate file.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

We currently pass a number of variables to m4 by specifying command line options of the form -D var=val. This approach makes the output of "make V=1" very verbose due to the three multi-line descriptions. To addresses this issue, introduce defs.m4 which contains one m4 macro definition for each former make variable. The end result should be identical. We tweak the M4 make variable to always read defs.m4 before the first regular input file so that the suite and the web page see the definitions. The third user of the former make variables is the README phony target. To convert this as well, we rename the README file to README.m4 and adjust the rule of the README phony target to run m4 on this file. Switch to saner m4 quoting characters while at it.

Move snapshot distribution explanation to separate man section.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

Since the new section contains a table, we have to tell groff to run the tbl preprocessor to generate the html version of the man page. We now pass -I image to the groff postprocessor so that the png image file gets a predictable name. We'd love to pass --image‐directory=build/ to place the png file in the build directory, but this also creates html like , which does not work because index.html is in build/. Change the cwd to the build directory to work around this.

Add phony targets distclean and maintainer-clean.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

With the patch applied, "make clean" keeps files generated by lopsub and m4, "make distclean" removes the build directory, and "make maintainer-clean" removes all untracked files except Makefile.local.

index.html: Inline the svg image.

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

This way the web page can be installed by copying a single html file. It also speeds up page loading since no additional http request is needed to download the image file.

build: New phony target "www".

2024-07-02T16:52:03Z

This saves some typing as the simple "make www" now builds index.html and the html version of the man page.