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| Name: libcob4 | Distribution: SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 |
| Version: 3.2 | Vendor: openSUSE |
| Release: bp160.1.1 | Build date: Mon Feb 2 17:30:56 2026 |
| Group: Development/Languages/Other | Build host: reproducible |
| Size: 673387 | Source RPM: gnucobol-3.2-bp160.1.1.src.rpm |
| Packager: https://bugs.opensuse.org | |
| Url: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnucobol/ | |
| Summary: GnuCOBOL shared library | |
GnuCOBOL (formerly OpenCOBOL) is a COBOL compiler. cobc translates COBOL to executable using intermediate C sources, providing full access to nearly all C libraries.
LGPL-3.0-or-later
* Mon Feb 02 2026 Sarah Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org>
- Update keyring from the latest version from gnu ftp server
* Sat Jan 17 2026 Sarah Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org>
- Update to 3.2
* improved dialect handling including changed defaults to better match
the selected dialect
* a complete new dialect GCOS and support for more COBOL statements
* intrinsic functions and syntax from both "old" and new dialects
* highly improved run-times for several statements,
along with less memory usage, especially if runtime checks are enabled
* fileio changes to support LINE-SEQUENTIAL per COBOL2023 and
runtime options to change the way files are handled,
see NEWS and runtime.cfg
* improvements for source-level debugging via GDB and coredump support
* output of context for diagnostics
* improvements for reproducible builds
- Change download resources to gnu ftp for more stable source
- Add patch move_packed_decimal.patch
- Remove mlio.c in gnucobol-3.1.2-C99.diff
- Remove fix_test_698.patch
- Add patch fix-errno.patch
- Add newcob.val.tar.gz for fixing download of value data for tests
- Add gnucobol-esql-3.0
* ESQL preprocessor (esqlOC) relies on ODBC for access to a variety
of SQL engines
- Renaming from gnu-cobol to gnucobol
* Sat Oct 25 2025 Arjen de Korte <suse+build@de-korte.org>
- Fix build errors with GCC 15
* Wed Jul 24 2024 Martin Jambor <mjambor@suse.com>
- Add gnucobol-3.1.2-C99.diff to add missing includes of
libxml/parser.h which cause GCC 14 to emit compiler error rather
than a warning.
- Add -Wno-error=incompatible-pointer-types to optflags so that GCC 14
can compile test 0987 without failing with an error.
* Sat Jul 15 2023 Sarah Kriesch <sarah.kriesch@opensuse.org>
- Move libcob-devel files to gnucobol.lang because libcob.h can not be found
(boo#1209438)
* Wed Dec 23 2020 Luigi Baldoni <aloisio@gmx.com>
- Update to version 3.1.2 (see NEWS or ChangeLog for details)
- Drop gnucobol-CFLAGS.patch (no longer needed)
- Add fix_test_698.patch and enable hardening
- Add buildtime requirements for libjson-c and libxml2
- Disable lto to avoid test failure
* Fri Jul 27 2018 jengelh@inai.de
- Trim redundancies from description.
* Sat May 12 2018 aloisio@gmx.com
- Enable parallel build and tests
* Tue May 08 2018 aloisio@gmx.com
- Update to version 3.0rc1, stabler than 2.2 final
(see NEWS or ChangeLog for details)
- Refreshed gnucobol-CFLAGS.patch
- Switched source URL to sourceforge to get the latest tarball
- Fixed description
- Enabled tests
* Thu Sep 07 2017 aloisio@gmx.com
- Update to version 2.2 (see NEWS or ChangeLog)
- Switched license to GPL-3.0+/LGPL-3.0+
- Updated source URL and homepage on account of being accepted
into the GNU Project
- Added gnucobol-CFLAGS.patch
- Dropped types.diff (apparently no longer necessary)
* Mon Apr 06 2015 mpluskal@suse.com
- Cleanup spec file with spec-cleaner
- Use url for source
- Update info dependencies
- Use macro for locale handling
- Do not create static library
* Wed Jul 16 2014 dvlaeev@suse.com
- Fix SLE11 builds by defining buildroot
Wed Apr 30 00:00:00 UTC 2014 - MihailJP
- First packaging
/usr/lib64/libcob.so.4 /usr/lib64/libcob.so.4.2.0 /usr/share/licenses/libcob4 /usr/share/licenses/libcob4/COPYING.LESSER
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