Update to 10.7.6 (in progress) + pulled in a few fixes from other forks

Makefile

@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 # and file LOCALIZATION for details
 #
 
-VERSION = 10.7.5
-INT_VERSION = 10705
+VERSION = 10.7.6
+INT_VERSION = 10706
 
 default: makefile_build
 	make -f makefile_build

README.md

@@ -9,18 +9,33 @@ newLISP mirror
 
 ## newLISP with Git(Hub)
 
+1. What is newLISP and what can I do with it?
+
+   newLISP is a LISP-like scripting language for doing things you typically do with scripting languages: programming for the internet, system administration, text processing, gluing other programs together, etc. newLISP is a scripting LISP for people who are fascinated by LISP's beauty and power of expression, but who need it stripped down to easy-to-learn essentials.
+
+2. What makes newLISP so special, why 'new'?
+
+   LISP is an old language born, grown, and standardized in times very different from today, times when programming was for highly educated people who engineered programs. newLISP is LISP reborn as a scripting language: pragmatic and casual, simple to learn without requiring you to know advanced computer science concepts. Like any good scripting language, newLISP is quick to get into and gets the job done without fuss.
+
+   newLISP has a very fast startup time, is small on resources like disk space and memory and has a deep, practical API with functions for networking, statistics, machine learning, regular expressions, multiprocessing and distributed computing built right into it, not added as a second thought in external modules.
+
+
+See also [the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) page](http://www.newlisp.org/index.cgi?FAQ).
+
+----
+
+
 NOTE: This repository is *unofficial* mirror.
 
-This is newLISP experimental repository introduced DVCS (Distributed Version Control System) by using Git.
-All source files are fetch from [SourceForge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/newlisp/files/).
-Mainly available to easy browsing source code, view history, create a patch, etc.
+This is a newLISP experimental repository.
+All source files are fetched from [SourceForge](http://sourceforge.net/projects/newlisp/files/).
+Mainly available for easy browsing of the source code, to view development history, create a patch, etc.
 
-The final goal is newLISP development introduces DVCS (Git, Mercurial, etc) in official.
 
 ### branch
 
-- `master`  : mirror from original newlisp sources
-- `develop` : `master` files and `README.md`, `.travis.yml`, `appveyor.yml` (default branch)
+- `master`  : mirror of original newlisp sources
+- `develop` : `master` files and `README.md`, `.travis.yml`, `appveyor.yml` plus miscellaneous patches  (default branch)
 - `feature/xxx` : (reserved)
 
 ### features
@@ -48,3 +63,141 @@ please contact Lutz Mueller (see README) or post to the Forum.
 newLISP and Nuevatec are trademarks of Lutz Mueller.
 All files are distribute by GPLv3. For more details,
 see [doc/COPYING](https://github.com/kosh04/newlisp/blob/master/doc/COPYING) and [doc/License.html](https://rawgit.com/kosh04/newlisp/master/doc/License.html).
+
+
+------
+------
+
+newLISP version 10.x.x for LINUX, FreeBSD, macOS Solaris and Windows
+====================================================================
+
+
+INTRODUCTION
+------------
+
+newLISP(tm) is LISP like scripting language for general programming
+artificial intelligence and statistics. 
+
+For more details about newLISP see the Users Manual and Reference in the
+distribution file: 'doc/newlisp_manual.html' 
+
+Code contributions, bug fixes, reports and comments are welcome. New
+versions are available at:
+
+    http://newlisp.org
+      or
+    http://newlisp.org/downloads
+      or
+    http://sourceforge.net/projects/newlisp
+
+See the file doc/CHANGES in the source distribtion for changes over 
+previous versions or
+
+    http://newlisp.org/downloads/newLISP_xx_Release_Notes.html
+
+New versions in development are available at:
+
+    http://newlisp.org/downloads/development
+
+Please contact me via email at: lutz@nuevatec.com.
+
+Some of the information in this file is expanded in file newlisp-x.x.x/doc/INSTALL.
+
+
+BUILD, CHECK and INSTALL
+------------------------
+
+Normally the correct makefile_xxxxx will be picked automatically just typing: 
+
+    make
+
+to discover the current platform and make for Linux, MacOSX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD,
+NetBSD, Solaris/SunOS and Win32 (MinGW on MSYS). Sometimes the makefile_xxxxx
+must be specified explicitely, e.g. when compiling for the RaspberryPi runnning
+a sub-flavor of Linux and cross-compiled on a desktop system:
+
+    make -f makefile_raspberrypi
+
+Any other makefile_xxxxx can be picked the same way, but always read the
+makefile_xxxxx first, sometimes it contains special instructions!
+
+To test the compiled newlisp executable do:
+
+    make check
+
+or showing only success or failure:
+
+    make testall
+
+From a user account if the sudo command and admin password is available:
+
+    sudo make install
+
+If root permissions are not available:
+
+    make install_home
+
+home_install does not install the newLISP-GS Java based IDE, but installs
+the supportig documentation.
+
+see all flavors and platforms available for install:
+
+    make help
+
+will list all available platforms and flavors, newLISP can also be made as
+a shared, dhynamic library: newlisp.so, newlisp.dylib or  newlisp.dll
+
+To discover the platform in an extra step do:
+
+    ./configure
+
+    make
+
+this discovers the platform and generates a makefile_build which
+is used subsequently by make. As an alternative use:
+
+    ./configure-alt
+
+    make
+
+this does a more elaborate analysys of options supported on a specific
+platform and custom makes a makefile_build.
+
+See the files doc/INSTALL, doc/LOCALIZATION and doc/FILES for more
+detailed information.
+
+
+MINIMUM INSTALL
+---------------
+
+Note that for a minumum install only the executable newlisp or newlisp.exe
+in Win32 is necessary.
+
+On Mac OS X or other UNIX copy  newlisp to /usr/local/bin or /usr/bin or ~/bin 
+and give it executable permissions.
+
+
+LICENSE
+-------
+
+newLISP and Nuevatec are trademarks of Lutz Mueller. Files in the newLISP
+distribution are protected by the "GNU General Public License Version 3, June 2007". 
+For the full text of this license see the accompanying file COPYING in the doc
+directory, or the appendix in the file newlisp_manual.html. Documentation files
+are protected by the "GNU Free Doumentation License Version 1.2, November 2002".
+A copy of this license is also included in the file COPYING.
+
+This and information about lcensing from other contributors to newLISP is
+contained in the file COPYING in the source distribution.
+
+
+MORE INFO AND CONTACT
+---------------------
+
+See in the doc/ directory of the source distribution
+
+lutz@nuevatec.com
+
+
+
+

configure-alt

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
 PACKAGE=newlisp
-VERSION=10.7.5
+VERSION=10.7.6
 
 rm -f config.h makefile_build makefile_install