instructions, and provide additional useful info alongside the bug
reporting address in --help output:
* Makefile.am (edit): Substitute $host_triplet.
* libtoolize.in: Output useful debug info with --help.
* config/ltmain.in: Ditto.
* README: Rewritten. Added copyright info.
* README-alpha: Rewritten. Added copyright info.
* HACKING: New file, partly taken from old README-alpha.
required to write this changeset -- especially that ltmain.sh is
the same on any machine for a given release, which I hadn't
noticed for some bizarre reason: It turns out that generating
distributed files from configure causes no end of hassle, as
evidenced by the many patches I've generated over the last few
days to try and get the dist and distcheck make rules to work.
Instead of all that hair, we now simply generate our distributed
files (now including ltmain.sh) with make rules -- and since
automake creates make variables for all AC_SUBSTs, that is really
easy. The code looks a lot more like automake and autoconf
Makefile.ams now, and doesn't have all the rough edges the earlier
hacky solution suffered from. We still generate libtool from
config.status, but that is not a distributed file, and doesn't
break the golden rule. Besides, there is way more going on there
than a bunch of substitutions:
* Makefile.am (edit): New common sed substitutions for files now
generated by make instead of config.status.
(CLEANFILES): Clean new tmp files.
(EXTRA_DIST): Add ltmain.sh.
(vcl-tmp): Reinstated.
(m4/ltversion.m4, config/ltmain.sh): New rules. Generate from
here instead of config.status.
(libtoolize): Ditto.
(libtool): Call config.status to regenerate if necessary.
(dist-hook): Removed.
* config/ltmain.in: Moved here from top_srcdir.
* README-alpha: Update instructions to check AS_SHELL_SANITIZE is
up to date.
* bootstrap: Rewritten. Generate m4/ltversion.m4 and
config/ltmain.sh because configure depends on them.
* configure.ac (AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR): Use libtoolize.in now that
ltmain.in has moved.
(AC_CONFIG_FILES): Don't generate distributed files,
config/ltmain.sh and libtoolize from config.status. We have make
rules to do that now.
maintainers only out of the Makefile we distribute and into one
that we only need keep in CVS.
* README-alpha: Add -fMakefile.maint to the instructions where
needed.
the 1.5.2 release.
* Makefile.am (cvs-dist): Because we check whether ChangeLog
has been committed, this rule can't be run with uncommitted
source so we can't run 'commit' and don't need to run
'make dist' a second time. Fix CVS tag as it should be
"release-X" not "Release-X".
(cvs_commit): New rule for the cvs-release chain that runs
'commit'
(cvs-release): Depend on cvs-commit, depend on deltas instead of
cvs-diff and xdelta.
(cvs-diff): Removed, replaced with delta-diff.
(delta-diff): Unpack and diff the old and new tarballs rather
than using CVS, so we get a genuinely complete diff.
(xdelta): Removed, replaced with delta-xdelta.
(got-xdelta): New rule for improved reading.
(delta-xdiff): Copied and cleaned up version of old xdelta rule.
(deltas): Depends on delta-diff and delta-xdelta (make deltas).
(cvs-news): Don't depend on timestamps, cvs-dist itself does now.
(prev-tarball): This is the only place we need a LASTRELEASE check
so copy the code here and remove the CHECK_RELEASE variable.
(new-tarball): Check there's a new tarball (did cvs-dist work?)
(FETCHFILES): Remove obsolete libltdl mentions.
* README-alpha: Update CVS instructions as everything's changed
on Savannah.
(Release procedure): Update NEWS and ChangeLog after changing
the version number (both times); Run 'make fetch' after running
'configure' (difficult to do it beforehand); Require 'commit'
before 'make cvs-dist' as that checks ChangeLog is committed;
'make deltas' instead of 'cvs-diff' and 'xdelta', pass LASTRELEASE
to make instead of OLDVERSION (and it's mandatory); Clean up
uploading paragraph; Clearer announcement sending instruction;
Removed ftp-upload@gnu.org mail as that's not necessary now;
Make web page updating instructions a bit clearer; Add an instruction
to update the manual for non-alphas.
(Alpha release note template): Add a Subject; update CVS instructions.
(Full release note template): Add a Subject; update CVS instructions.
* configure.ac: Add dist-bzip2 to AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE as we talk
about bz2 files in our release announcements; remove old reference
to OLDVERSION.
are in fact now rather complicated. This delta updates the
release instructions to the describe the new process, and updates
the maintainer rules to help automate many of the steps:
* README-alpha: Updated release instructions.
* Makefile.am (GPG): Name of the program for generating signatures
for files to be uploaded.
(XDELTA, XDELTA_OPTIONS): Invocation of xdelta.
(cvs-dist): Run distcheck before tagging the cvs tree incase
distcheck fails, and then generate the gpg signature files.
(cvs-diff): Generate the gpg signature files for the diff.
(xdelta): New rule for generating the xdelta diffs and associated
gpg signature files.
(cvs-release): New rule to do all of the above, if you don't mind
typing your gpg passphrase over and over again. :-)
(fetch): New rule inspired by automakes similar rule for updating
files maintained outside the project.
* config/config.guess, config/config.sub: Updated with the new
fetch rule.
* configure.ac: Bumped version to 1.5a.
GNU libtool 1.5 was released.
* configure.ac: Bumped version to 1.5.
* NEWS: updated.
* README-alpha: Updated upload instructions.
* README: Changed typo in version description.
* config.guess, config.sub, texinfo.tex: Synchronized from
ftp.gnu.org.
* configure.ac: Bumped version to 1.4e.
GNU libtool 1.4d was released.
* configure.ac: Bumped version to 1.4d.
* NEWS: updated.
* config.guess, config.sub, texinfo.tex: Synchronised from
ftp.gnu.org.
* 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,
(cvs-diff): ditto
(EXTRA_DIST): added README-alpha
(DIST_SUBDIRS): added depdemo
* README-alpha: minor adaptations
* demo/Makefile.am, mdemo/Makefile.am, depdemo/Makefile.am:
removed comment about special needs for distribution
* depdemo/Makefile.am: don't generate dependencies
* depdemo/configure.in: modified version number
