2.7.7 released December 21, 1999

- More verbose autoconf test for __FUNCTION__
- bugfix and cleanup in patterns/Makefile.am
- Split utils.c into board.c and utils.c
- Cleanup of both files.
- Fix a warning in fuseki.c
- minor tuning
- one new pattern in conn.db
- improved trace messages for read results, contingent on TRACE_READ_RESULTS