Add makevar SYSCONFDIR, closes #4560
add collect(T,itr) method [close #4679]
freebsd fix
fix #4667, parsing of .. by itself
Merge pull request #4676 from JuliaLang/sf/sysconfdir

Add makevar SYSCONFDIR, closes #4560
slightly better transpose for ranges
Merge branch 'master' of github.com:JuliaLang/julia
workaround for #4419
fix error information for stat syscall
Change test bounds to 2*n instead of n^2
Add DISTRIBUTING.md, notes for those looking to create distributable packages for Julia on various platforms
Add in notice about licensing of distribution bundles
NEWS: link to the packages chapter
NEWS: primes/isprime – remove non-working link to a commit

Just mention the new functions by name instead.
Merge pull request #4680 from staticfloat/master

Add DISTRIBUTING.md
NEWS: various fixes and copy edits
Documented the new collect(type, iter) function

and excecuted
$ cd doc
$ make helpdb.jl

to get recent documentation updates into helpdb.jl
Merge pull request #4683 from ivarne/new_collect

Documented the new collect(type, iter) function
doc/manual: mention Int128,Uint128,Float16 in types
update doc for copy!. fixes #4689