1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool
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1997-04-02 03:19:30 +08:00
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* NEWS: updated
* README: updated (BeOS support, no longer shared libraries
support for AmigaOS), cleanups, we have now two mailing lists
* REAMDE-alpha: autogen -> bootstrap, we have now two mailing lists
* THANKS: added Xavier Pianet
* doc/PLATFORMS: BeOS works
* doc/libtool.texi: we have now to two mailing lists,
updated -dlopen self documentation, documented libltdl's license,
put each author in a separate line,
inter-library dependencies on uninstalled libtool libraries are
now supported, cleanups and minor corrections
* libltdl/COPYING.LIB: new file
* libltdl/ltdl.[ch]: added special exception to the LGPL license
* libtool.spec: removed, it was outdated
* Makefile.am: removed libtool.spec
* ltmain.in: use TMPDIR when possible, create a subdirectory
in the temporary directory, added -export-symbols-regex to the help,
1999-03-28 00:58:10 +08:00
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New in 1.3b: 1999-??-??; CVS version 1.3a, Libtool team:
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* merged my inter-library dependencies code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: inter-library dependencies are now supported
* configure.in: add the depdemo subdirectory
* depdemo/*: new demo to demonstrate inter-library dependencies
* tests/depdemo*: new tests for depdemo
* ltconfig.in: added hardcode_into_libs (whether library paths
should be hardcoded into the libraries),
it currently defaults to 'no'
* ltmain.in: new internal 'relink' mode to relink libraries
on platforms with hardcode_into_libs=yes, save command line
arguments in libtool_args, accept relative -L directories,
ignore -lm on BeOS and Cygwin, always ignore -lc,
handle -l, -L and .la arguments later, always make the library
installation directory (-rpath) absolute, in relink mode don't
delete the not-relinked library and exit immediately after relinking,
try to find already-installed libtool libraries that were specified
using -l, support hardcoding of library paths into libraries too,
export shlibpath before linking libraries, and a lot of other
big changes that I don't want to describe here... please read
the source.
* merged Gary's Win32 code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: Win32 DLLs are now supported
* TODO: removed .a library namespace clash for win32. It is
now resolved.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, library_names_spec): removed $libname.a.
Creating a dll with libtool no longer creates an import library.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): Create $objdir if it does
not exist -- i.e. we need to generate import an import library
in a directory which has no libs of its own.
* doc/libtool.texi (old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds,
extract_expsyms_cmds): documented these new variables.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to
extract the exported symbol list from a dll.
(old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to build
an old archive from the extracted expsyms list.
* ltmain.in: run the cmds in extract_expsyms_cmds and
old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds as necessary.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, old_archive_from_new_cmds): no longer
required.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, shlibpath_overrides_runpath): I'm not even
sure whether win32 honours the runpath at all when searching for
a dll to load! Anyway, when set to yes this prevents a gratuitous
warning.
* ltmain.in (deplib): The cygwin environment doesn't actually have
-lm, and although the linker fakes having one, specifiying it to
libtool will break ILD, so we ignore it when generating
dependencies.
1999-03-19 05:57:08 +08:00
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* Complete inter-library dependencies support. It's now possible
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to link libtool libraries against other libtool libraries.
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1999-04-07 18:55:44 +08:00
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* Libtool is able to find already-installed libtool libraries,
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even if they were moved out of their installation directory.
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1999-05-23 02:04:32 +08:00
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* New "-Wc,flag" and "-Xcompiler flag" flags to pass flags
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directly to the compiler
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* New "-Wl,flag" and "-Xlinker flag" flags to pass flags
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directly to the linker
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1999-05-26 00:05:50 +08:00
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* Support for installing stripped libraries using GNU strip (install -s).
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Automake >= 1.5 will install stripped libraries with "make install-strip".
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* merged my inter-library dependencies code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: inter-library dependencies are now supported
* configure.in: add the depdemo subdirectory
* depdemo/*: new demo to demonstrate inter-library dependencies
* tests/depdemo*: new tests for depdemo
* ltconfig.in: added hardcode_into_libs (whether library paths
should be hardcoded into the libraries),
it currently defaults to 'no'
* ltmain.in: new internal 'relink' mode to relink libraries
on platforms with hardcode_into_libs=yes, save command line
arguments in libtool_args, accept relative -L directories,
ignore -lm on BeOS and Cygwin, always ignore -lc,
handle -l, -L and .la arguments later, always make the library
installation directory (-rpath) absolute, in relink mode don't
delete the not-relinked library and exit immediately after relinking,
try to find already-installed libtool libraries that were specified
using -l, support hardcoding of library paths into libraries too,
export shlibpath before linking libraries, and a lot of other
big changes that I don't want to describe here... please read
the source.
* merged Gary's Win32 code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: Win32 DLLs are now supported
* TODO: removed .a library namespace clash for win32. It is
now resolved.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, library_names_spec): removed $libname.a.
Creating a dll with libtool no longer creates an import library.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): Create $objdir if it does
not exist -- i.e. we need to generate import an import library
in a directory which has no libs of its own.
* doc/libtool.texi (old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds,
extract_expsyms_cmds): documented these new variables.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to
extract the exported symbol list from a dll.
(old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to build
an old archive from the extracted expsyms list.
* ltmain.in: run the cmds in extract_expsyms_cmds and
old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds as necessary.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, old_archive_from_new_cmds): no longer
required.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, shlibpath_overrides_runpath): I'm not even
sure whether win32 honours the runpath at all when searching for
a dll to load! Anyway, when set to yes this prevents a gratuitous
warning.
* ltmain.in (deplib): The cygwin environment doesn't actually have
-lm, and although the linker fakes having one, specifiying it to
libtool will break ILD, so we ignore it when generating
dependencies.
1999-03-19 05:57:08 +08:00
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* Support for linking DLLs on Win32
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1999-04-28 01:30:20 +08:00
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* New `clean' mode to delete uninstalled files.
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* merged my inter-library dependencies code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: inter-library dependencies are now supported
* configure.in: add the depdemo subdirectory
* depdemo/*: new demo to demonstrate inter-library dependencies
* tests/depdemo*: new tests for depdemo
* ltconfig.in: added hardcode_into_libs (whether library paths
should be hardcoded into the libraries),
it currently defaults to 'no'
* ltmain.in: new internal 'relink' mode to relink libraries
on platforms with hardcode_into_libs=yes, save command line
arguments in libtool_args, accept relative -L directories,
ignore -lm on BeOS and Cygwin, always ignore -lc,
handle -l, -L and .la arguments later, always make the library
installation directory (-rpath) absolute, in relink mode don't
delete the not-relinked library and exit immediately after relinking,
try to find already-installed libtool libraries that were specified
using -l, support hardcoding of library paths into libraries too,
export shlibpath before linking libraries, and a lot of other
big changes that I don't want to describe here... please read
the source.
* merged Gary's Win32 code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: Win32 DLLs are now supported
* TODO: removed .a library namespace clash for win32. It is
now resolved.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, library_names_spec): removed $libname.a.
Creating a dll with libtool no longer creates an import library.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): Create $objdir if it does
not exist -- i.e. we need to generate import an import library
in a directory which has no libs of its own.
* doc/libtool.texi (old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds,
extract_expsyms_cmds): documented these new variables.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to
extract the exported symbol list from a dll.
(old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to build
an old archive from the extracted expsyms list.
* ltmain.in: run the cmds in extract_expsyms_cmds and
old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds as necessary.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, old_archive_from_new_cmds): no longer
required.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, shlibpath_overrides_runpath): I'm not even
sure whether win32 honours the runpath at all when searching for
a dll to load! Anyway, when set to yes this prevents a gratuitous
warning.
* ltmain.in (deplib): The cygwin environment doesn't actually have
-lm, and although the linker fakes having one, specifiying it to
libtool will break ILD, so we ignore it when generating
dependencies.
1999-03-19 05:57:08 +08:00
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* New demos and tests
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* Various bugfixes
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1999-06-23 23:09:28 +08:00
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New in 1.3.3: 1999-06-2?, CVS version 1.3.2a, Libtool team:
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* New `-dlpreopen dummy' flag to ensure that
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lt_preloaded_symbols is always defined.
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1999-06-10 22:42:34 +08:00
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* Work around self-dlclose bug in FreeBSD 3.1.
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1999-05-27 19:41:02 +08:00
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* Expand convenience libraries when creating reloadable objects.
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1999-06-23 23:09:28 +08:00
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* Do not forget to import -L flags of convenience libraries.
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1999-05-27 18:56:10 +08:00
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* Do not pass -whole-archive or equivalent to symbol extractor.
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* Create directory to expand convenience libraries only when needed.
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1999-06-23 23:09:28 +08:00
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* Improved support for Cygwin, DJGPP and NetBSD
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* Various bugfixes
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1999-05-27 18:56:10 +08:00
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1999-05-26 08:16:39 +08:00
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New in 1.3.2: 1999-05-26, CVS version 1.3.1a, Libtool team:
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* Avoid circular links of objects and libraries.
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* Look for dlerror when dlopen was found in -ldl (typo).
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* Disable shared libraries with broken GNU ld on Solaris.
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1999-05-23 02:04:32 +08:00
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New in 1.3.1: 1999-05-21, CVS version 1.3.0a, Libtool team:
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1999-05-21 07:55:28 +08:00
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* Documentation improvements; recommend automake users to insert libtool.m4
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in acinclude.m4
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* AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE and AC_LIBLTDL_INSTALLABLE now set INCLTDL.
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1999-05-19 15:57:37 +08:00
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* New port to NEC UX/4800.
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* cygwin-b20.1 passes all tests.
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* Slightly improved BeOS support.
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* Many AIX 4.3.2 test failures have gone.
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* Pass unknown -L arguments through to the linker (for -LANG:* support).
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* Close a security hole with mode 777 directory during libltdl installation.
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* Fixed the infamous ``ifelse'' bug in libtool.m4
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1999-04-29 20:53:08 +08:00
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New in 1.3: 1999-04-29, Libtool team:
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* This is just a summary of the changes since 1.2.
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See the news of intermediate alpha releases below for details.
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* Support for convenience archives.
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* New maintainers. Anonymous CVS and home page at gnu.org.
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* Portable dlopening interface with libltdl, new -module flag.
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* Correctly link installed libtool libraries into programs and other
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libtool libraries. Linking of uninstalled libtool libraries into
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libraries is under development for 1.4.
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* Do not drop library dependencies on platforms that allow them.
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* Linking with uninstalled libraries no longer picks installed ones by
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mistake.
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* Use libraries from the build tree when running uninstalled
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executables (may require double linking).
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* Allow developers to optimize for build-tree executions.
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* Support -export-symbols-regex for controlled symbol exporting.
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* Support -R to hardcode directories in library search paths.
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* New ports, demos and tests. Lots of improvements and bug fixes.
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New in CVS version 1.2g, Libtool team:
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1999-04-03 08:36:06 +08:00
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* AM_PROG_LIBTOOL is smaller and faster
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1999-04-28 23:26:14 +08:00
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* AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL is required in configure.in for libtool to
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attempt to build dlls on win32 hosts
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1999-04-03 08:36:06 +08:00
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* Shared libraries on AmigaOS up to version 4 are now disabled
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since they don't meet libtool's requirements for shared libraries
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* -L supports now relative directories
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* Libltdl has a new license: LGPL with a special exception
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* Libltdl can be used as stand-alone package
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1999-03-20 08:27:33 +08:00
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* dlopen support for BeOS
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1999-04-10 02:47:16 +08:00
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* Partial support for Motorola System V 4
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1999-04-29 18:56:20 +08:00
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* Improved support for AIX, BeOS, Cygwin, DJGPP, DU, IRIX and HP/UX
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* NEWS: updated
* README: updated (BeOS support, no longer shared libraries
support for AmigaOS), cleanups, we have now two mailing lists
* REAMDE-alpha: autogen -> bootstrap, we have now two mailing lists
* THANKS: added Xavier Pianet
* doc/PLATFORMS: BeOS works
* doc/libtool.texi: we have now to two mailing lists,
updated -dlopen self documentation, documented libltdl's license,
put each author in a separate line,
inter-library dependencies on uninstalled libtool libraries are
now supported, cleanups and minor corrections
* libltdl/COPYING.LIB: new file
* libltdl/ltdl.[ch]: added special exception to the LGPL license
* libtool.spec: removed, it was outdated
* Makefile.am: removed libtool.spec
* ltmain.in: use TMPDIR when possible, create a subdirectory
in the temporary directory, added -export-symbols-regex to the help,
1999-03-28 00:58:10 +08:00
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* Documentation updates
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1999-04-03 08:36:06 +08:00
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* New tests
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* NEWS: updated
* README: updated (BeOS support, no longer shared libraries
support for AmigaOS), cleanups, we have now two mailing lists
* REAMDE-alpha: autogen -> bootstrap, we have now two mailing lists
* THANKS: added Xavier Pianet
* doc/PLATFORMS: BeOS works
* doc/libtool.texi: we have now to two mailing lists,
updated -dlopen self documentation, documented libltdl's license,
put each author in a separate line,
inter-library dependencies on uninstalled libtool libraries are
now supported, cleanups and minor corrections
* libltdl/COPYING.LIB: new file
* libltdl/ltdl.[ch]: added special exception to the LGPL license
* libtool.spec: removed, it was outdated
* Makefile.am: removed libtool.spec
* ltmain.in: use TMPDIR when possible, create a subdirectory
in the temporary directory, added -export-symbols-regex to the help,
1999-03-28 00:58:10 +08:00
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* Bugfixes
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* merged my inter-library dependencies code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: inter-library dependencies are now supported
* configure.in: add the depdemo subdirectory
* depdemo/*: new demo to demonstrate inter-library dependencies
* tests/depdemo*: new tests for depdemo
* ltconfig.in: added hardcode_into_libs (whether library paths
should be hardcoded into the libraries),
it currently defaults to 'no'
* ltmain.in: new internal 'relink' mode to relink libraries
on platforms with hardcode_into_libs=yes, save command line
arguments in libtool_args, accept relative -L directories,
ignore -lm on BeOS and Cygwin, always ignore -lc,
handle -l, -L and .la arguments later, always make the library
installation directory (-rpath) absolute, in relink mode don't
delete the not-relinked library and exit immediately after relinking,
try to find already-installed libtool libraries that were specified
using -l, support hardcoding of library paths into libraries too,
export shlibpath before linking libraries, and a lot of other
big changes that I don't want to describe here... please read
the source.
* merged Gary's Win32 code from the ILD branch:
* NEWS: Win32 DLLs are now supported
* TODO: removed .a library namespace clash for win32. It is
now resolved.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, library_names_spec): removed $libname.a.
Creating a dll with libtool no longer creates an import library.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): Create $objdir if it does
not exist -- i.e. we need to generate import an import library
in a directory which has no libs of its own.
* doc/libtool.texi (old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds,
extract_expsyms_cmds): documented these new variables.
* ltconfig.in (extract_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to
extract the exported symbol list from a dll.
(old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds): New variable. Commands to build
an old archive from the extracted expsyms list.
* ltmain.in: run the cmds in extract_expsyms_cmds and
old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds as necessary.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, old_archive_from_new_cmds): no longer
required.
* ltconfig.in (cygwin, shlibpath_overrides_runpath): I'm not even
sure whether win32 honours the runpath at all when searching for
a dll to load! Anyway, when set to yes this prevents a gratuitous
warning.
* ltmain.in (deplib): The cygwin environment doesn't actually have
-lm, and although the linker fakes having one, specifiying it to
libtool will break ILD, so we ignore it when generating
dependencies.
1999-03-19 05:57:08 +08:00
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* NEWS: updated
* README: updated (BeOS support, no longer shared libraries
support for AmigaOS), cleanups, we have now two mailing lists
* REAMDE-alpha: autogen -> bootstrap, we have now two mailing lists
* THANKS: added Xavier Pianet
* doc/PLATFORMS: BeOS works
* doc/libtool.texi: we have now to two mailing lists,
updated -dlopen self documentation, documented libltdl's license,
put each author in a separate line,
inter-library dependencies on uninstalled libtool libraries are
now supported, cleanups and minor corrections
* libltdl/COPYING.LIB: new file
* libltdl/ltdl.[ch]: added special exception to the LGPL license
* libtool.spec: removed, it was outdated
* Makefile.am: removed libtool.spec
* ltmain.in: use TMPDIR when possible, create a subdirectory
in the temporary directory, added -export-symbols-regex to the help,
1999-03-28 00:58:10 +08:00
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New in 1.2f: 1999-03-15; CVS version 1.2e, Libtool team:
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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* libtool will correctly link uninstalled libraries into programs
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and prefer uninstalled libraries to installed ones
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1999-03-14 07:09:57 +08:00
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* Library paths that are in the system default run-time search path
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are no longer hardcoded into executables.
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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* New fast installation mode, which links the final executable
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in order to avoid relinking during installation.
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Programs in the build-tree are relinked when executed.
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1999-03-11 01:23:28 +08:00
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* New AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL macro to set the default for
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the fast-install mode to disabled
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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* New -export-symbols-regex flag, to export symbols selectively by
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a regular expression
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1999-03-11 01:23:28 +08:00
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* Support -R for specifying run-time path of programs and library dependencies
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* New -avoid-version option to avoid versioning for libraries
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* libtool module names no longer need to have a "lib" prefix
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(requires automake 1.4).
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* New -thread-safe flag, to build thread-safe libraries
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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* Major improvements in libltdl: API documentation, installable version,
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support for module search paths, support for lt_dlopen(0),
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can be embedded into packages as a tar file (libltdl.tar.gz),
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dynamic buffer allocation and buffer overflow checks,
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new macro LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS() which must be used in the
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main program, dynamic memory allocation functions are user-defineable
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1999-03-11 01:23:28 +08:00
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* New AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE and AC_LIBLTDL_INSTALLABLE macros, to select
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convenience and/or installable versions of libltdl.
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* libltdl is now built and installed unless --disable-ltdl-install
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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* New "-dlopen self" flag for dlopening the executable itself
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* New AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN macro to check for dlopen support,
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required if you use -dlopen or -dlpreopen
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1999-03-11 01:23:28 +08:00
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* If libtool could not satisfy all dependencies of a module
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it will only build a static version of it
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* dld_preloaded_symbols was renamed to lt_preloaded_symbols
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1999-01-02 04:01:09 +08:00
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* Support for BeOS
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1999-03-11 01:23:28 +08:00
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* Improved support for FreeBSD, AIX, IRIX, OSF, SysV 4.3, HP/UX, DJGPP
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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BSD/OS 4.x and NetBSD
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1999-03-11 01:23:28 +08:00
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* In order for libtool to attempt to link a shared library (dll) on win32
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platforms, you must pass the -no-undefined flag to libtool in link mode.
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* The path to GNU ld now works on cygwin-b18 to cygwin-b20.2 at least.
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* Support for IRIX library versioning.
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* New demos and tests
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1998-12-30 19:36:22 +08:00
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* Various bugfixes
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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* NEWS: updated
* README: updated (BeOS support, no longer shared libraries
support for AmigaOS), cleanups, we have now two mailing lists
* REAMDE-alpha: autogen -> bootstrap, we have now two mailing lists
* THANKS: added Xavier Pianet
* doc/PLATFORMS: BeOS works
* doc/libtool.texi: we have now to two mailing lists,
updated -dlopen self documentation, documented libltdl's license,
put each author in a separate line,
inter-library dependencies on uninstalled libtool libraries are
now supported, cleanups and minor corrections
* libltdl/COPYING.LIB: new file
* libltdl/ltdl.[ch]: added special exception to the LGPL license
* libtool.spec: removed, it was outdated
* Makefile.am: removed libtool.spec
* ltmain.in: use TMPDIR when possible, create a subdirectory
in the temporary directory, added -export-symbols-regex to the help,
1999-03-28 00:58:10 +08:00
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New in 1.2d: 1998-12-16; CVS version 1.2c, Libtool team:
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1998-11-20 02:01:07 +08:00
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* libtool will correctly link already-installed libraries into programs.
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1998-11-18 15:29:36 +08:00
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* New -module flag, to create loadable modules.
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1998-12-16 13:15:24 +08:00
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* New libltdl, a small library for portable dlopening of modules.
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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It is still undocumented, but you can already find some examples in:
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1998-12-16 13:15:24 +08:00
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* New mdemo directory, with tests of -module and dlopening examples.
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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Be aware that libltdl is only known to work on a few platforms such as
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GNU/Linux and Solaris2. Some mdemo tests are known to FAIL on several
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other platforms; please ignore these failures by now (or work to fix
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them :-).
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1998-11-12 05:55:49 +08:00
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* Inter-library dependencies patch finally integrated, but there's
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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still much porting to do. See PORTING for details (some plans for the
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future in mail/deplibs in the CVS tree).
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1998-11-12 23:59:10 +08:00
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* New option -export-symbols to control symbol exporting when possible.
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1998-11-16 16:10:45 +08:00
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* Fixed -export-dynamic problem with C++ programs in egcs 1.1.
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* New dlpreopen structure.
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1998-11-12 05:55:49 +08:00
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* libtool now supports `-c -o' and subdirectories in sources and
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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target object names even in platforms whose compilers do not support
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this. In this case, file locking occurs to avoid problems with
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parallel builds.
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1998-11-12 05:55:49 +08:00
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* New `echo' variant that should fix most problems with long command
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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lines and broken printf programs.
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1998-12-16 13:15:24 +08:00
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* Support for DG/UX, UnixWare 7.x and FreeBSD 3.0, and improved
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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support for Microsoft Windows
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1998-11-12 05:55:49 +08:00
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* Various bugfixes
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* We now have anonymous CVS access to GNU libtool. CVSROOT is
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/anoncvsroot. The password
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is empty. The directory is libtool. Check our home-page at
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http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html for details.
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1998-12-16 13:15:24 +08:00
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* Alexandre Oliva, Thomas Tanner and Gary V. Vaughan have taken over
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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the maintenance of libtool.
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1998-08-20 23:48:13 +08:00
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* Arguments to ltconfig have been changed to allow creation of a
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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libtool C program, totally unusable as of this release.
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1998-07-01 16:12:49 +08:00
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New in 1.2b - 1998-07-01, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* Libtool needs a new maintainer, since Gordon Matzigkeit has quit.
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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If you think you can do the job, send mail to bug-libtool@gnu.org.
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1998-07-01 16:12:49 +08:00
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* Bug fixes.
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* Support for libtool convenience archives.
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1999-03-08 02:32:07 +08:00
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1998-04-20 03:29:28 +08:00
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New in 1.2a - 1998-04-19, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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1998-04-15 00:29:20 +08:00
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* Bug fixes.
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1998-04-20 03:29:28 +08:00
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* ltconfig accepts an `--output' option to specify the name of the
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generated libtool.
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1998-04-15 00:29:20 +08:00
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* New `--debug' flag to turn on shell script tracing for libtool,
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libtoolize, and ltconfig.
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1998-04-20 03:29:28 +08:00
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* Added `libtool --config' to print out all configuration variables.
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1998-04-15 00:29:20 +08:00
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* Support for *-*-hpux11*.
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1998-04-20 03:29:28 +08:00
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1998-03-20 15:58:42 +08:00
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New in 1.2 - 1998-03-20, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* Minor bug fixes to provide a stable public release.
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* Libtool no longer causes Solaris printf to barf due to silly
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2110-byte static buffers.
|
1998-04-20 03:29:28 +08:00
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1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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New in 1.1 - 1998-03-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* Bug fixes.
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1998-03-06 00:22:50 +08:00
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* http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/ is libtool's homepage.
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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* `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' supports turning shared or static libraries off
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with the `--enable-shared=PKGS' and `--enable-static=PKGS' configure
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1998-03-06 00:22:50 +08:00
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flags. See (libtool)AM_PROG_LIBTOOL.
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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* Use the `AM_DISABLE_SHARED' or `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' macros if you
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wish to modify the default behaviour of `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' for your
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package.
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* New rules for `AM_PROG_LD' to use gcc's `-print-prog-name' flag in
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order to find ld, if possible.
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* Suppress duplicate compiler output during `compile' mode.
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* Deleted `dlname' mode. Dlopen applications should only use the
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runtime search method described in (libtool)Finding the dlname.
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* Experimental support for dynamically loaded modules, even on
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static-only platforms, via new `-dlopen' and `-dlpreopen' link
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flags.
|
1998-03-06 00:22:50 +08:00
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* `compile' mode honours the `-static' flag to prevent libtool
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from building PIC objects.
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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* New `execute' mode to support debugging uninstalled libtool
|
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libraries and executables.
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* `-allow-undefined' is now the default. You can use `-no-undefined'
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to declare that a shared library is completely self-contained.
|
1998-01-26 03:35:11 +08:00
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* Inter-library dependencies are automatically handled when linking
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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against an uninstalled `.la' file.
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* New `-all-static' flag to prevent any dynamic linking. The regular
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`-static' flag now just prevents dynamic linking of libtool libraries.
|
1998-02-06 15:36:38 +08:00
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* New `-release' flag to encode release numbers into libtool
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|
libraries. This breaks binary compatibility, but is useful for
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libraries whose interfaces change very frequently. See
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(libtool)Versioning.
|
1997-09-15 20:31:09 +08:00
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* The `-rpath' flag can be used to hardcode absolute directories when
|
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linking executables using libtool.
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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* New robust quoting code to handle any metacharacters passed in
|
1997-08-29 11:09:18 +08:00
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arguments to libtool commands.
|
1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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* Full support for broken collect2 on AIX 3. Shared libraries
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can now be built with all working versions of GCC on AIX.
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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* Shell script speed optimizations for old and buggy /bin/sh systems,
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such as HP-UX 9 and SunOS 4.1.4.
|
1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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* Maybe use `_libs' as a temporary libtool directory instead of `.libs'
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in order to cope with MS-DOS filenames.
|
1998-03-09 13:34:02 +08:00
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* Portability fixes for Windows NT.
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* Refuse to create libtool libraries that don't begin with `lib'.
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This allows us to correctly handle OSes that don't have the `lib'
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prefix by default, such as OS/2.
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* Support for *-*-amigaos*, *-*-os2*, *-*-sysv4.2uw2*, and *-*-uts4*.
|
1997-07-13 05:39:00 +08:00
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1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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New in 1.0 - 1997-07-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
1997-04-02 03:21:43 +08:00
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* Bug fixes.
|
1997-06-19 12:30:26 +08:00
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* Better configuration test to find the system linker. The old test
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|
was failing because people frequently install GNU ld, but don't
|
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|
necessarily configure GCC to use it.
|
1997-04-02 03:21:43 +08:00
|
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* Automake support for Libtool now uses the LTLIBRARIES primary. See
|
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|
|
the Automake documentation for more information.
|
1997-05-25 06:50:52 +08:00
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* Added new `--disable-static' flag to disable building static
|
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libraries on platforms that have shared libs.
|
1997-06-07 05:55:10 +08:00
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* New `-allow-undefined' link flag to build shared libs that contain
|
1997-06-06 02:00:56 +08:00
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references to unresolved symbols.
|
1997-06-12 01:13:23 +08:00
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* Removed all support for creating static-only libraries.
|
1997-04-06 02:48:44 +08:00
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* Basic support for dynamically loaded modules: new `-export-dynamic'
|
1997-04-25 01:51:39 +08:00
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linking flag and corresponding `dlname' mode.
|
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* New `--features' flag to display configured libtool attributes.
|
1997-06-14 05:40:39 +08:00
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* Added support for installing libtool objects, both in absolute and
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relative directories.
|
1997-04-02 03:21:43 +08:00
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* Support *-*-linux-gnu* as an alias for *-*-linux*.
|
1997-06-07 05:55:10 +08:00
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* Support for *-*-openbsd* and *-*-freebsd3*.
|
1997-04-02 03:21:43 +08:00
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1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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New in 0.9 - 1997-02-03, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
1997-04-02 03:19:30 +08:00
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* Bug fixes.
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* The libtool demo now uses the libm cos(3) function, to demonstrate
|
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|
inter-library dependencies.
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* The PLATFORMS file has been moved to doc/platforms.texi.
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1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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New in 0.8 - 1997-01-26, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
1997-04-02 03:00:38 +08:00
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* Bug fixes, and more documentation.
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* Basic support for other language compilers (C++, Fortran, and
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preprocessed assembler).
|
1997-04-02 03:02:08 +08:00
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* Libtool is now more persistent when linking with the `-static'
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flag fails.
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* New test for hardcoding system linkers, to verify that libtool
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neither creates incorrect binaries, nor takes unnecessary
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precautions while linking against uninstalled shared libraries.
|
1997-04-02 03:04:40 +08:00
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* For clarity, the demo subdirectory no longer uses ansi2knr, and has
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been rewritten to avoid ANSI-only constructs.
|
1997-04-02 03:02:08 +08:00
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* Support for *-*-irix5, *-*-irix6*, and *-*-sco3.2v5*.
|
1997-04-02 03:00:38 +08:00
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1997-11-15 02:04:44 +08:00
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New in 0.7 - 1996-12-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
1997-04-02 02:29:23 +08:00
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* Total rewrite of libtool, along with a new model for library building.
|
1997-04-02 02:46:48 +08:00
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* Completely rewritten documentation for the new paradigm.
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* Sane handling of broken system linkers, such as the ones on AIX
|
1997-04-02 02:29:23 +08:00
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and HP-UX.
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* configure mode is now a separate program, `ltconfig'
|
1997-04-02 02:46:48 +08:00
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* The libinfo helper script has been incorporated into the main
|
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libtool program.
|
1997-04-02 02:29:23 +08:00
|
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* Automatic mode guessing, based on the command line.
|
1997-04-02 02:57:49 +08:00
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* Full support for Automake 1.2 (including ansi2knr features).
|
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* Support to create reloadable objects using link mode.
|
1997-04-02 02:46:48 +08:00
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* Support for new `-static' linking flag.
|
1997-04-02 02:53:35 +08:00
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* Support for stripping libraries during installation.
|
1997-04-02 02:49:25 +08:00
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* Library version information is now passed on the command line, not
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through a version file.
|
1997-04-02 02:29:23 +08:00
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1997-04-02 02:46:48 +08:00
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Version 0.6 was never released.
|
1997-04-02 02:29:23 +08:00
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New in 0.5:
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* Disabled install-progs until next version, when it will be correctly
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implemented.
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* Clearer library versioning documentation. See (libtool)Versioning.
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* Renamed gm_PROG_LIBTOOL to AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
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* Libtool now creates pseudo-objects named foo.lo and pseudo-archives named
|
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|
libfoo.la instead of foo.o and libfoo.a. See the documentation.
|
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* libtool compile doesn't interfere with user CFLAGS if they don't
|
|
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|
|
|
conflict with the current objtype. From Karl Berry.
|
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|
* Created new libinfo helper script.
|
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* libversion.in files are obsolete -- libtool uses libinfo to read the
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|
new LIBINFO files.
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* Libtool is better at finding its config file and helper scripts.
|
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* Support for *-*-gnu*
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New in 0.4:
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* Bug fixes and new regression tests
|
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* On unsupported configurations, ``libtool configure'' demotes OBJTYPES to
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`standard' instead of aborting
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* Added new object type, `t', for tcov(1) support
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* Support for *-*-aix3*, *-*-aix4*, *-*-hpux10*, *-*-osf3*, and *-*-solaris2*
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New in 0.3:
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* Bug fixes and new regression tests
|
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* Added new uninstall-libs mode
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* Added a host argument to configure mode
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* Fixed debugging/hyper-optimizing flags conflict (from Karl Berry)
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* Support for --no-whole-archive when needed by GNU ld (from Ulrich Drepper)
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* Implementation of --enable-linktype, --enable-profile, --enable-shared,
|
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|
--enable-static in gm_PROG_LIBTOOL macro
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* New `libtoolize' program (modeled after GNU gettext's `gettextize') to help
|
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|
|
conversion to libtool
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* New ABOUT-LIBS document for inclusion with libtool-supported packages
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New in 0.2:
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* Support for *-*-linux
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* Better checking for GNU ld
|
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* Reimplemented the config file so that it corresponds more closely to the
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variables listed in (libtool)Porting Libtool.
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* Reimplemented the shared library version scheme. See (libtool)Versioning.
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* Replaced `--config-file' and `--version-file' options with `--confdir'
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* Added new install-libs and install-progs modes
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New in 0.1:
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* First release of libtool
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* Support for: *-*-freebsd*, *-*-netbsd*, *-*-sunos4*, *-*-ultrix4*
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