IMPORTANT: 73 software upgrades and added offline mode

Summary: This is a software update to make Maneage more portable and up to
date. It does not involve any Maneage infrastructure changes. You should
just re-build your project to make sure the updated software haven't
removed/changed any of their features that you were using.

Until now, the software in Maneage had not been updated for almost 2.5
years (since August 2022) and were starting to get dated! Also, when no
internet is available (for example in a HPC), the Zenodo check would always
cause a crash and needed to be commented manually.

With this commit, all the basic software that had been updated as well as
the dependencies of Gnuastro (which we commit to maintaining) have been
updated after a check of their webpage (see the full list below). To fix
the offline issue, a new '--offline' option has been added to the project
script. The other following changes were made:

 - tarball-prepare: has become more resilient (for dealing with file name
   with spaces or Lzip, which should not be compressed).

 - Readme: improve documentation when used in Docker.

Below you can see the list of basic software that have been updated. The
only basic software that have not been updated upstream since the previous
Maneage software update are 'bison', 'flock', 'm4', 'pkgconfig', 'unzip'
and 'zip'.

    bash                5.2-rc2            5.2.37
    binutils            2.39               2.43.1
    coreutils           9.1                9.6
    curl                7.84.0             8.11.1
    dash                0.5.11-057cd65     0.5.12
    diffutils           3.8                3.10
    file                5.42               5.46
    findutils           4.9.0              4.10.0
    gawk                5.1.1              5.3.1
    gcc                 12.1.0             14.2.0
    gettext             0.21               0.23.1
    git                 2.37.1             2.48.1
    gmp                 6.2.1              6.3.0
    grep                3.7                3.11
    gzip                1.12               1.13
    help2man            1.49.2             1.49.3
    isl                 0.24               0.27
    less                590                668
    libiconv            1.17               1.18
    libtool             2.4.7              2.5.4
    libunistring        1.0                1.3
    libxml2             2.9.12             2.13.5
    lzip                1.23               1.25
    make                4.3                4.4.1
    mpc                 1.2.1              1.3.1
    mpfr                4.1.0              4.2.1
    nano                6.4                8.3
    ncurses             6.3                6.5
    openssl             3.0.5              3.4.0
    perl                5.36.0             5.40.1
    podlators           4.14               6.0.2
    readline            8.2-rc2            8.2.13
    sed                 4.8                4.9
    tar                 1.34               1.35
    texinfo             6.8                7.2
    wget                1.21.2             1.25.0
    which               2.21               2.23
    xz                  5.2.5              5.6.3
    zlib                1.2.11             1.3.1

The high-level software that have been updated.

    autoconf            2.71               2.72
    automake            1.16.5             1.17
    cfitsio             4.1.0              4.5.0
    cmake               3.24.0             3.31.5
    expat               2.4.1              2.6.4
    fontconfig          2.14.0             2.16.0
    freetype            2.11.0             2.13.3
    ghostscript         9.56.1             10.04.0
    gnuastro            0.18               0.23
    gsl                 2.7                2.8
    libffi              3.4.2              3.4.7
    libgit2             1.3.0              1.9.0
    libice              1.0.10             1.1.2
    libidn              1.38               1.42
    libjpeg             9e                 9f
    libpaper            1.1.28             1.1.29
    libpng              1.6.37             1.6.46
    libpthread-stubs    0.4                0.5
    libsm               1.2.3              1.2.5
    libtiff             4.4.0              4.7.0
    libxau              1.0.9              1.0.12
    libxcb              1.15               1.17
    libxdmcp            1.1.3              1.1.5
    libxext             1.3.4              1.3.6
    libxt               1.2.1              1.3.1
    python              3.10.6             3.13.12
    util-macros         1.19.3             1.20.2
    wcslib              7.11               8.4
    xcb-proto           1.15               1.17
    xorgproto           2022.1             2024.1
    xtrans              1.4.0              1.5.2

1 files changed, 31 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk b/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk
index 2274c45..fdab193 100644
--- a/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk
+++ b/reproduce/software/make/high-level.mk
@@ -118,11 +118,16 @@ else
 
 endif
 
+# Disable the TeXLive target if `--offline`
+ifneq ($(strip $(offline)),1)
+  target-texlive := $(itidir)/texlive
+endif
+
 # Ultimate Makefile target.
 all: $(foreach p, $(targets-proglib), $(ibidir)/$(p)) \
      $(foreach p, $(targets-python), $(ipydir)/$(p)) \
      $(foreach p, $(targets-r-cran),  $(ircrandir)/$(p)) \
-     $(itidir)/texlive
+     $(target-texlive)
 
 # Define the shell environment
 # ----------------------------
@@ -433,11 +438,14 @@ $(ibidir)/cfitsio-$(cfitsio-version):
 #	Continue the standard build on the customized tarball. Note that
 #	with the installation of CFITSIO, 'fpack' and 'funpack' are not
 #	installed by default. Because of that, they are added explicity.
+#
+#	Note that older versions of CFITSIO (before 4.4.0) require a
+#	specific 'shared' target for the building of the shared libraries.
 	export gbuild_tar=$(ddir)/$$customtar
 	$(call gbuild, cfitsio-$(cfitsio-version), , \
 	               --enable-sse2 --enable-reentrant \
 	               --with-bzip2=$(idir), , \
-	               make shared fpack funpack)
+	               make fpack funpack)
 	rm $$customtar
 	echo "CFITSIO $(cfitsio-version)" > $@
 
@@ -921,8 +929,8 @@ $(ibidir)/libgit2-$(libgit2-version): $(ibidir)/cmake-$(cmake-version)
 	              -DUSE_SSH=OFF -DBUILD_CLAR=OFF \
 	              -DTHREADSAFE=ON -DUSE_ICONV=OFF )
 	if [ x$(on_mac_os) = xyes ]; then
-	  install_name_tool -id $(ildir)/libgit2.1.3.dylib \
-	                        $(ildir)/libgit2.1.3.dylib
+	  install_name_tool -id $(ildir)/libgit2.1.9.dylib \
+	                        $(ildir)/libgit2.1.9.dylib
 	fi
 	echo "Libgit2 $(libgit2-version)" > $@
 
@@ -1156,7 +1164,9 @@ $(ibidir)/ghostscript-$(ghostscript-version): \
 	            --disable-cups \
 	            --enable-dynamic \
 	            --disable-compile-inits \
-	            CFLAGS="-DPNG_ARM_NEON_OPT=0"
+		    --disable-hidden-visibility \
+		    CFLAGS="-DPNG_ARM_NEON_OPT=0" \
+		    LDFLAGS=-Wl,--copy-dt-needed-entries
 
 #	Build and install the program and the shared libraries.
 	make    V=1 -j$(numthreads)
@@ -1642,7 +1652,10 @@ $(ibidir)/swig-$(swig-version):
 # '$(ibdir)'. If any program does need 'util-linux' libraries, they can
 # simply add the proper directories to the environment variables, see
 # 'fontconfig' for example.
-$(ibidir)/util-linux-$(util-linux-version): | $(idircustom)
+$(ibidir)/util-linux-$(util-linux-version): \
+                     $(ibidir)/autoconf-$(autoconf-version) \
+                     $(ibidir)/automake-$(automake-version) \
+                     | $(idircustom)
 
 #	Import the source.
 	tarball=util-linux-$(util-linux-version).tar.lz
@@ -1663,18 +1676,20 @@ $(ibidir)/util-linux-$(util-linux-version): | $(idircustom)
 	  git apply util-linux-$(util-linux-version)-macos.patch
 	fi
 
-#       The 'mkswap' feature needs low-level file system and kernel headers
-#       that are not always available (in particular on older Linux
-#       kernels). Also, creating SWAP space will need root permissions, so
-#       its not something a Maneager may need! Unfortunately there is no
-#       configuration option to disable this so we'll have to disable it
-#       manually by commenting the relevant files in the
-#       'configure.ac'. Having a more recent 'configure.ac' will trigger
-#       the './configure' script to be re-created after the first run, but
-#       it is pretty fast and not a problem.
+#	The 'mkswap' feature needs low-level file system and kernel headers
+#	that are not always available (in particular on older Linux
+#	kernels). Also, creating SWAP space will need root permissions, so
+#	its not something a Maneager may need! Unfortunately there is no
+#	configuration option to disable this so we'll have to disable it
+#	manually by commenting the relevant files in the
+#	'configure.ac'.
 	sed -e's|UL_BUILD_INIT(\[mkswap\], \[yes\])|UL_BUILD_INIT(\[mkswap\], \[no\])|' \
 	    -i configure.ac
 
+#	Having updated 'configure.ac', we need to re-generate the
+#	'./configure' script with 'autoreconf' (which is part of Autoconf
+#	and needs Automake; hence why they are dependencies.
+	autoreconf -f
 
 #	Configure Util-linux
 	export CONFIG_SHELL=$(ibdir)/bash
@@ -1682,6 +1697,7 @@ $(ibidir)/util-linux-$(util-linux-version): | $(idircustom)
 	            --disable-dependency-tracking \
 	            --enable-libmount-support-mtab \
 	            --disable-silent-rules \
+	            --disable-liblastlog2 \
 	            --disable-mountpoint \
 	            --disable-libmount \
 	            --disable-unshare \