mirror of
git://git.savannah.gnu.org/libtool.git
synced 2024-12-03 06:30:13 +08:00
9bf1ccc71a
* 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.
134 lines
4.7 KiB
Plaintext
134 lines
4.7 KiB
Plaintext
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 <libtool@gnu.org> 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 git first:
|
|
|
|
git clone git://git.savannah.gnu.org/libtool.git
|
|
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 <bug-libtool@gnu.org>, 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, <bug-libtool@gnu.org> 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,
|
|
<bug-libtool@gnu.org>.
|
|
|
|
--
|
|
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software
|
|
Foundation, Inc.
|
|
Written by Gary V. Vaughan, 2004
|
|
|
|
This file is part of GNU Libtool.
|
|
|
|
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
|
|
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
|
|
notice and this notice are preserved. This file is offered as-is,
|
|
without warranty of any kind.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Local Variables:
|
|
mode: text
|
|
fill-column: 72
|
|
End:
|
|
vim:tw=72
|