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2010-06-09 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Simplify license variations, and add missing license texts.
* ChangeLog, ChangeLog.1996, ChangeLog.1997, ChangeLog.1998,
ChangeLog.1999, ChangeLog.2000, ChangeLog.2001, ChangeLog.2002,
ChangeLog.2003, ChangeLog.2004, ChangeLog.2005, ChangeLog.2006,
ChangeLog.2007, ChangeLog.2008, ChangeLog.2009, NEWS: Add
all-permissive license.
* HACKING, README, README.alpha, TODO: Relax license to RMS
encouraged all-permissive terms.
* libltdl/README: Ditto. I added the original license text in
2007, and there's no need for it to be so long for such a trivial
file.
* libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh, libltdl/general.m4sh: Cvs-utils is
dead, and I am the author of these files, so consolidated license
terms to match regular Libtool licensing.
* HACKING (Licensing Rules): Update wording, and list of files for
the all permissive license.
(GPL with CVS-Utils exception clause): Removed. No files have these
license any more.
(GPL with Libtool exception clause): Ditto, only libltdl/README
used to be distributed with this variation.
* AUTHORS: Add GPL license text.
Fix a type in the 2.2.8 release notes.
* NEWS: s/ romoted/ promoted/ in the 2.2.8 release notes.
Don't warn about the blank line inserted into git commit message.
* clcommit.m4sh: When searching for accidental commits of mutliple
changes, ignore the second line of the message, which we inserted
earlier to support "git log --oneline".
Enable correct extraction of multiline copyright from --version.
* libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh: Wrap copyright notice at 76
columns.
(func_version): Don't omit spaces when merging multiline copyright
notices.
* clcommit.m4sh, libtoolize.m4sh: Wrap copyright notice at 76
columns.
* NEWS (2.2.8): BlueGene compiler tests were performed on BG/P
systems, not BG/L.
Reported by Christian Rössel <christian.roessel@gmx.de>
2010-06-08 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Fix testsuite helper macros to not hide failure.
* tests/testsuite.at (LT_AT_CONFIGURE, LT_AT_MAKE):
Do not wrap AT_CHECK in a subshell, so that failures are
properly propagated; instead, move environment changes inside
the AT_CHECK code.
Report and analysis by Peter Rosin.
Avoid autom4te warning about unnamed diversion.
* libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh: Use diversion name KILL not -1.
2010-06-07 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Make versioning test stricter for w32, enable shared libs.
* tests/versioning.at (versioning): Add -no-undefined to
LDFLAGS.
(test_uninstalled): Also move $bindir out of the way
temporarily.
Fix versioning test for LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed.
* tests/versioning.at (versioning): For the library update
hypotheses, ensure the unchanged library libb isn't accidentally
relinked against the new liba, by not reinstalling libb.
Fixes testsuite failure for the incompatible update case with
LDFLAGS=-Wl,--as-needed.
* THANKS: Update.
Report by Ryan Hill.
2010-06-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Rewrite manual intro to be gender-neutral.
* doc/libtool.texi (Introduction): Use gender-neutral
formulation when addressing developers.
2010-06-05 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Update and simplify all m4sh scripts to use latest getopt.m4sh.
* clcommit.m4sh, libltdl/config/mailnotify.m4sh: Rewrite option
parsing loop over M4SH_GETOPTS macro, and adjust all clients of
option variables to use generated option names.
Add missing quote for literal ? in a shell case statement.
* libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh (m4go_shortnoargs): Quote initial ?
correctly for use in a shell case statement.
Quote command line arguments after --rcfile properly.
* libltdl/config/announce-gen.m4sh (--rcfile): Quote remaining
arguments shell variable expression correctly for eval.
Shift correctly in numbered option argument collection.
* libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh (_m4go_option): Argument list also
needs to be `shift'ed in the shell option loop after processing a
numbered argument collection.
Fetch from new upstream host for config.guess and config.sub.
* Makefile.maint (WGET_CGIT): Location of newest config.guess and
config.sub upstream.
(fetch): Fetch config.guess and config.sub from WGET_CGIT, rather
than no-longer-updating WGET_SGO location.
Update generated upload directive file format to v1.1.
* Makefile.maint (git-dist, diffs): Update to generate v1.1 format
directive files for ftp://ftp-upload.gnu.org/incoming/ftp.
Fix web manual generation details in release instructions.
* HACKING (Release Procedure): Move the instruction for generating
web manuals for a new release to before the instruction that bumps
the version numbers to the post release values.
Set SCM version number to 2.2.9a.
* configure.ac, libltdl/configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version
number to 2.2.9a.
* NEWS: Updated.
GNU Libtool 2.2.8 was released.
Prepare for next release.
* configure.ac, libltdl/configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version
number to 2.2.8.
* NEWS: Update version number.
* INSTALL, libltdl/config/install-sh, libltdl/config/config.guess,
libltdl/config/config.sub, libltdl/config/texinfo.tex: Updated
from canonical source.
Provide an m4sh reimplementation of announce-gen.
* libltdl/config/getopt.m4sh (M4SH_GETOPTS): New macro that takes
a quoted m4 list of command line options to be parsed, and
generates the shell code to parse those options and collect the
results into appropriately named 'opt_xxx' shell variables. Also,
add some private supporting macros, and improve the comments
radically.
* libltdl/config/announce-gen.m4sh: New file, to generate and
optionally post (an enhancement over the gnulib perl script of the
same name) a release announcement.
* Makefile.maint (announce-gen): Build a new announce-gen script
in the build directory, from the contents of
libltdl/config/announce-gen.m4sh.
* HACKING (Release Procedure): Update the instructions to use
announce-gen.
(Alpha release note template, Full release note template):
Removed.
2010-05-22 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Support "git log --oneline" in generated commit messages.
* clcommit.m4sh (func_check_commit_msg): Insert an empty line
between the ChangeLog entry summary line and the ChangeLog entry
body, so that "git log --oneline" works properly.
Bump copyright and version number.
Reported by Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
2010-05-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
* HACKING: Set Reply-To: in announcement emails.
2010-05-21 Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Set SCM version number to 2.2.7c.
* configure.ac, libltdl/configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version
number to 2.2.7c.
* NEWS: Updated.
GNU Libtool 2.2.7b was released.
Prepare for next release candidate.
* configure.ac, libltdl/configure.ac (AC_INIT): Bump version
number to 2.2.7b.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4, libltdl/m4/ltdl.m4,
libltdl/m4/ltoptions.m4, libltdl/m4/lt~obsolete.m4: These files
have been updated without a serial bump since the last release.
* libltdl/Makefile.inc (LTDL_VERSION_INFO): Bump Revision, to
account for bugfixes since the last release.
* libltdl/config/install-sh, libltdl/config/config.guess,
libltdl/config/config.sub, libltdl/config/texinfo.tex,
INSTALL: Updated from canonical source.
* NEWS: Update with missing entries from ChangeLog.
* HACKING: Note workaround for developer tool-path leakage bug.
Skip some tests in --disable-ltdl-install mode.
* tests/dlloader-api.at, tests/exceptions.at,
tests/lalib-syntax.at, tests/loadlibrary.at,
tests/lt_dlopenext.at, tests/resident.at: Detect when these
tests try to link against the not installed libltdl.la, and
skip rather than FAIL.
2010-05-05 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Clarify versioning algorithm documentation.
* doc/libtool.texi (Updating version info): Be explicit
about setting age to zero on interface change.
Reported by Jef Driesen <jefdriesen@hotmail.com>
2010-05-04 Peter O'Gorman <peter@pogma.com>
Ranlib is required with -force_load and fat archives.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_REQUIRED_DARWIN_CHECKS): Run
ranlib.
Reported by Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@apple.com>
2010-04-09 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Fix incompatible struct declarations.
* doc/libtool.texi (Dlpreopening): Remove broken documentation
of lt_dlsymbol and lt_dlsymlist. Document typedef lt_dlsymlist
and symbol lt_preloaded_symbols according to the implementation.
* tests/demo/dlmain.c (lt_symlist): Make struct anonymous ...
(lt_dlsymlist): ... and typedef to this name.
(lt_preloaded_symbols, main): Adjust.
* tests/pdemo/longer_file_name_dlmain.c: Likewise.
2010-04-04 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Use linker_flags not compiler_flags with $LD.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_LINKER_SHLIBS) [linux]
<archive_cmds, archive_expsym_cmds>: With xlf and bgxlf
compilers, when linking with $LD, use $linker_flags not
$compiler_flags.
2010-03-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Add FAQ, and FAQ entry for flags stripped at library link time.
* doc/libtool.texi (FAQ, Stripped link flags): New nodes.
(Wrapper executables): Replace bug address with macro.
(Compile mode, Link mode): Document `-Wc,' and `-Xcompiler '
semantics better.
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_link): Rewrite comment
for the flags that are passed through.
Prompted by reports from Simon Richter <Simon.Richter@hogyros.de>,
Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> and
Åke Sandgren <ake.sandgren@hpc2n.umu.se>.
2010-03-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Fix preloader symbol list declaration in libltdl.
* libltdl/ltdl.c (preloaded_symbols): Fix declaration to include
array brackets.
(lt_dlinit): Do not take address of preloaded_symbols.
Fix typo in libtool --help output.
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_mode_help): Fix typo in help
output.
Fix a couple of documentation errors.
* doc/libtool.texi (Autoconf macros): Improve hyphenation.
(Using libltdl): libltdl uses the Lesser General Public License,
not the Library General Public License.
Do not use @sc nor @acronym in the manual.
* doc/libtool.texi: Remove all usage of @sc.
2010-03-19 Chris Demetriou <cgd@google.com>
Sort output of 'find' to enable deterministic builds.
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_extract_archives): Sort
output of 'find'.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG): Likewise.
* THANKS: Update.
2010-03-19 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Unconditionally normalize LC_ALL, LANGUAGE in libtool script.
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh: Unconditionally set LC_ALL and
LANGUAGE to 'C', to avoid semantic differences on MinGW under
Chines locale. SCO issues with e.g. LANG=C are not known to
be relevant today any more.
Report by Pete Batard <pbatard@gmail.com> and Xiaofan Chen
<xiaofanc@gmail.com>.
2010-03-17 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Preserve the last error when restoring the error mode.
* libltdl/loaders/loadlibrary.c (wm_open): Don't rely on
SetThreadErrorMode (or SetErrorMode) to not clobber the last
error.
Report by Ralf Wildenhues.
Use Get/SetThreadErrorMode if they are available.
* libltdl/loaders/loadlibrary.c (wrap_geterrormode): Replaced...
(wrap_getthreaderrormode): ...by this function that checks
first for GetThreadErrorMode, then GetErrorMode and makes use
of either of those or...
(fallback_getthreaderrormode): ...else falls back to this
replacement function that implements the old workaround, which
was previously implemented in...
(fallback_geterrormode): ...this now renamed function.
(geterrormode): Replaced...
(getthreaderrormode): ...by this function pointer that points
at either of wrap_getthreaderrormode, GetThreadErrorMode,
GetErrorMode or fallback_getthreaderrormode.
(wrap_setthreaderrormode): New function that checks if
SetThreadErrorMode is supported by the system and makes use of
it if it is.
(fallback_setthreaderrormode): New function that is used
otherwise that implements the old version using SetErrorMode.
(setthreaderrormode): New function pointer that points at
either of wrap_setthreaderrormode, SetThreadErrorMode or
fallback_setthreaderrormode.
(vm_open): Adjust to the above.
2010-02-28 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Detect Sun compiler suite with 'sun'-prefixed names.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_COMPILER_PIC, _LT_LANG_CXX_CONFIG)
(_LT_SYS_HIDDEN_LIBDEPS) [solaris]: Accept compiler names sunCC,
sunf77, sunf90, sunf95 in addition to CC, f77, f90, f95.
* NEWS: Update.
Report by Vadim Zeitlin.
2010-02-28 Pierre Ossman <ossman@ossman.lkpg.cendio.se> (tiny change)
2010-03-29 00:00:03 +08:00
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Fix deplibs check fallback for 64-bit Windows and Windows CE.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_CHECK_MAGIC_METHOD): Accept file formats
'pe-arm-wince' and 'pe-x86-64'. Add note about consistency with ...
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_win32_libid): ... the respective
pattern here; sync pattern from the former.
* tests/deplibs-mingw.at (deplibs without file command): New
file, new test.
* Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Update.
* NEWS: Update.
2010-02-24 Scott McCreary <scottmc2@gmail.com> (tiny change)
Update search path on Haiku for legacy system directory.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_SYS_DYNAMIC_LINKER) [haiku]
<sys_lib_dlsearch_path_spec>: Replace legacy
/boot/beos/system/lib directory with /boot/system/lib.
* THANKS: Update.
2010-02-22 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
manual: fix detailmenu ordering.
* doc/libtool.texi (Top): Add section for `Linking executables'
in the detailmenu.
2010-02-21 Charles Wilson <libtool@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Guard against strerror()==NULL
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:main):
Check return value of strerror() using nonnull().
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:find_executable): Ditto.
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:chase_symlinks): Ditto.
2010-02-21 Charles Wilson <libtool@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Document wrapper changes.
* NEWS: Indicate new feature and incompatibility.
* doc/libtool.texi [detailmenu]: Add reference to subsection
'Wrapper executables for programs', in Platform Quirks category.
[Linking executables]: Mention wrapper executables, in
addition to wrapper scripts. Add menu referencing subsection
'Wrapper executables for programs'.
[Wrapper executables for programs]: New subsection. Documents
cwrapper rationale and command line options.
2010-02-21 Charles Wilson <libtool@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Add --lt-* options to shell wrapper
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_emit_wrapper): Call
func_parse_lt_options early. Use func_exec_program.
(func_emit_wrapper:func_parse_lt_options): New function.
(func_emit_wrapper:func_lt_dump_args): New function.
(func_emit_wrapper:func_exec_program_core): New function.
(func_emit_wrapper:func_exec_program): New function.
2010-02-21 Charles Wilson <libtool@cwilson.fastmail.fm>
Enable runtime cwrapper debugging; add tests
* libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh (func_emit_cwrapperexe_src):
Update comments. Initialize program_name. Eliminate _LENGTH
variables for string constants. In debug mode, print a
banner with known content before any other output. Remove
LTWRAPPER_DEBUGPRINTF macro. Add constants and variables
to support new --lt-debug option.
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:ltwrapper_debugprintf): Renamed to...
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:lt_debugprintf): this. Only print
messages if lt_debug != 0. Ensure appearance of messages
conforms to GCS.
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:lt_fatal): Ditto.
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:lt_error_core): Ditto.
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src): Update all callers to lt_fatal.
Update all users of LTWRAPPER_DEBUGPRINTF (()) to call
lt_debugprintf () directly.
(func_emit_cwrapperexe_src:main): Consolidate option parsing.
Ensure first use of lt_debugprintf occurs after option parsing.
Add stanza to parse for --lt-debug and set lt_debug variable.
Use strcmp rather than strncmp, where safe.
* tests/cwrapper.at: Add new tests for --lt-debug and
-DLT_DEBUGWRAPPER.
2010-01-31 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Use --email with gendocs.sh.
* Makefile.maint (web-manual): Pass bug reporting address to
gendocs.sh.
Make testsuite code C++ clean again.
* tests/resident.at (resident modules): Fix for C++.
2010-01-29 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Testsuite exposure for dlloader API.
* tests/dlloader-api.at: New file, new test.
* Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Update.
2010-01-29 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
* tests/loadlibrary.at: Fix C++ issues.
2010-01-20 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Report proper errors from the loadlibrary loader.
* libltdl/loaders/loadlibrary.c (loadlibraryerror): New
helper function that returns the latest Windows error as a
string, or the provided default string on failure to do so.
(LOADLIB_SETERROR): New macro that wraps previous to make it
easy to use.
(vm_open, vm_close, vm_sym): Make use of previous.
(LOCALFREE): New macro to help free the Windows error string.
(vl_exit): Make use of previous.
* tests/loadlibarry.at: New file, new test that makes sure
the loadlibrary loader reports non-standard error messages.
* Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Add above test.
2010-01-02 Peter Rosin <peda@lysator.liu.se>
Use GetErrorMode if it is available.
* libltdl/loaders/loadlibrary.c (wrap_geterrormode): New
function that checks if GetErrorMode is supported by the
system and makes use of it if it is.
(fallback_geterrormode): New function that is used otherwise
that implements the old workaround.
(geterrormode): New function pointer that points at either
of the above or directly at GetErrorMode.
(vm_open): Make use of the above.
2010-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Ensure functions from resident modules work in atexit handlers.
* tests/resident.at (resident modules): New file, new test.
* Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Adjust.
Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
Testsuite exposure for relative output file names and deplibs.
* tests/deplib-in-subdir.at (deplib in subdir): New file, new
test.
* Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Update.
Prompted by report from Bob Friesenhahn.
2010-01-11 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Bob Friesenhahn <bfriesen@simple.dallas.tx.us>
Testsuite exposure for C++ exception handling.
* tests/exceptions.at (C++ exception handling): New file, new
test.
* Makefile.am (TESTSUITE_AT): Update.
Report by Bob Friesenhahn.
2010-01-06 Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de>
Bump copyright years.
* ChangeLog.2009: New, rotated from ...
* ChangeLog: ... here.
* Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Add ChangeLog.2009.
* NEWS, libltdl/config/ltmain.m4sh: Bump copyright years.
* libltdl/m4/libtool.m4 (_LT_COPYING, LT_OUTPUT): Likewise.
* libtoolize.m4sh: Likewise.
Continued in ChangeLog.2009
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