GNU Libtool *********** 1. Introduction =============== This is an alpha testing release of GNU Libtool, please try it on all the platforms you have access to. Using it more or less implicitly signs you up to help us find whatever problems you report. See the file INSTALL for generic instructions on how to build and install Libtool. Please see the file doc/notes.txt for some platform-specific information. Please note that you need GNU make to build Libtool. If it builds and passes the test suite (`gmake check'), please send notification to the libtool mailing list with a subject line including the string `[PLATFORM]'. 2. Reporting Bugs ================= If this distribution doesn't work for you, before you report the problem, please try upgrading to the latest version from CVS first: export CVS_RSH=ssh cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/libtool co libtool cd libtool ./bootstrap The `bootstrap' script sets up the source directory for you to hack, though it may take quite some time to run. To use it, you need a recent (maybe yet to be released) version of both Autoconf and Automake. If you don't intend to run the test suite, you can speed up the `bootstrap' step by an order of magnitude if you call it like this instead: reconfdirs='. libltdl' ./bootstrap If your bug is not fixed in the latest version, please send a full report to , including the information from the end of the help message given by `./libtool --help', and the verbose output of any failed test groups (as described below). 3. The Test Suites ================== Libtool comes with two integrated sets of tests to check that your build is sane. You can run both test suites like this, assuming that `gmake' refers to GNU make: gmake -k check If you want to run the old testsuite only, do it like this: gmake check TESTSUITEFLAGS=-V If you want to run the new testsuite only, do it like this: gmake check-local The tests of the old test suite run in groups in the various demo subdirectories, so if one of the tests early in a group FAILs, the rest of the tests in that group will be SKIPped. If you see a FAIL further into a group, even if a test with the same name PASSes in another test group, you need to take note of the name of the first test in the group if you want to rerun the group with FAILures to get verbose output. To run a test group of the old test suite in isolation (say, you think you have fixed a bug, but don't want to rerun the entire suite), you can do it like this: gmake check TESTS="tests/cdemo-static.test tests/cdemo-make.test \ tests/cdemo-exec.test" \ TESTSUITEFLAGS=-V Providing that you have a FAIL from the most recent group from a particular demo directory (like the cdemo-static.test group above), you can explore the state of the directory to help with debugging. If you wish to report a test group failure to the libtool list, you need to send the verbose output of the FAILing group, along with the information from the end of `$(top_builddir)/libtool --help' to the bug report mailing list, with a subject line that includes the string `[TEST FAILURE]'. From a Bourne compatible shell, you can generate verbose test output like this: VERBOSE=yes gmake check \ TESTS="tests/cdemo-static.test tests/cdemo-make.test tests/cdemo-exec.test" \ TESTSUITEFLAGS=-V | tee cdemo-static-group.log In order to enable debug shell tracing, use VERBOSE=debug instead of VERBOSE=yes. In the long run, Libtool will move to using only the new, Autotest-driven testsuite. Its usage is documented in info Autoconf 'testsuite Invocation' but simple help may also be obtained through gmake check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS='--help' For verbose output, add the flag `-v', for running only a subset of the independent tests, merely specify them by number or by keyword, both of which are displayed with the `--list' flag. For example, the `libtool' keyword is used for the tests that exercise only this script. So it is possible to test an installed script, possibly from a different Libtool release, with gmake check-local TESTSUITEFLAGS="-k libtool LIBTOOL=/path/to/libtool" If you wish to report test failures to the libtool list, you need to send the file `tests/testsuite.log' to the bug report mailing list, . -- Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Written by Gary V. Vaughan, 2004 This file is part of GNU Libtool. GNU Libtool is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Libtool is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 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