Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
Make Intel VTune Amplifier support conditional on USE_INTEL_JITEVENTS.
Add makevar SYSCONFDIR, closes #4560
Update NEWS.md with complex elementary functions
Expand NEWS with a summary, and add some specific points
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
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