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GNU Libtool
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1. Introduction
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===============
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This is an alpha testing release of GNU Libtool, please try it on all
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the platforms you have access to. Using it more or less implicitly
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signs you up to help us find whatever problems you report.
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If it builds and passes the test suite (`make check'), please send
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notification to the libtool mailing list <libtool@gnu.org> with a
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subject line including the string `[PLATFORM]'.
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2. Reporting Bugs
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=================
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If this distribution doesn't work for you, before you report the
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problem, please try upgrading to the latest version from CVS first:
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export CVS_RSH=ssh
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cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/libtool co libtool
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cd libtool
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./bootstrap
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The `bootstrap' script sets up the source directory for you to hack,
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though it may take quite some time to run. To use it, you need a recent
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(maybe yet to be released) version of both Autoconf and Automake. If
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you don't intend to run the test suite, you can speed up the `bootstrap'
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step by an order of magnitude if you call it like this instead:
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reconfdirs='. libltdl' ./bootstrap
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If your bug is not fixed in the latest version, please send a full
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report to <bug-libtool@gnu.org>, including the information from the end
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of the help message given by `./libtool --help', and the verbose output
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of any failed test groups (as described below).
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3. The Test Suites
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==================
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Libtool comes with two integrated sets of tests to check that your build
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is sane. You can run both test suites like this:
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make check TESTSUITE_FLAGS=-V
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make check-local
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The tests of the old test suite run in groups in the various demo
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subdirectories, so if one of the tests early in a group FAILs, the rest
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of the tests in that group will be SKIPped. If you see a FAIL further
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into a group, even if a test with the same name PASSes in another test
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group, you need to take note of the name of the first test in the group
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if you want to rerun the group with FAILures to get verbose output.
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To run a test group of the old test suite in isolation (say, you think
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you have fixed a bug, but don't want to rerun the entire suite), you can
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do it like this:
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make check TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test' \
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TESTSUITE_FLAGS=-V
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Providing that you have a FAIL from the most recent group from a
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particular demo directory (like the cdemo-static.test group above), you
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can explore the state of the directory to help with debugging.
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If you wish to report a test group failure to the libtool list, you need
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to send the verbose output of the FAILing group, along with the
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information from the end of `$(top_builddir)/libtool --help' to the bug
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report mailing list, <bug-libtool@gnu.org> with a subject line that
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includes the string `[TEST FAILURE]'. From a Bourne compatible shell,
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you can generate verbose test output like this:
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VERBOSE=yes make check \
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TESTS='cdemo-static.test cdemo-make.test cdemo-exec.test' \
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TESTSUITE_FLAGS=-V | tee cdemo-static-group.log
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In order to enable debug shell tracing, use VERBOSE=debug instead of
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VERBOSE=yes.
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In the long run, Libtool will move to using only the new,
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Autotest-driven testsuite. Its usage is documented in
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info Autoconf 'testsuite Invocation'
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but simple help may also be obtained through
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make check-local TESTSUITE_FLAGS='--help'
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For verbose output, add the flag `-v', for running only a subset of the
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independent tests, merely specify them by number or by keyword, both of
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which are displayed with the `--list' flag.
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If you wish to report test failures to the libtool list, you need to
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send the file `tests/testsuite.log' to the bug report mailing list,
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<bug-libtool@gnu.org>.
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--
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Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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The canonical source of this file is maintained with the
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GNU Libtool package. Report bugs to bug-libtool@gnu.org.
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GNU Libtool is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
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published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
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of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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As a special exception to the GNU General Public License,
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if you distribute this file as part of a program or library that
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is built using GNU libtool, you may include it under the same
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distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
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GNU Libtool is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with GNU Libtool; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
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02110-1301 USA
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