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NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool
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New in 2.4.2 2011-10-17: git version 2.4.1a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- The --with-pic configure option now supports a list of comma-separated
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package names. This can be used to build some static libraries with PIC
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objects while building others with non-PIC objects.
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- Initial support for Go, using the gccgo compiler.
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- On Mac OS X .dylib is now tried as well as .so with
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lt_dlopenext().
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* Bug fixes:
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- The generic approximation of the command line length limit (when getconf is
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not available) works again. Regression introduced in v2.2.6-39-g9c3d4d8.
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- The bug that leaked developer tool paths into the release tarballs
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from ./bootstrap is fixed.
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- Improved support for the Cuda Compiler Driver (nvcc) on Darwin.
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- For GCC LTO support, the -fuse-linker-plugin switch is now also removed
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when computing compiler postdeps.
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* Important incompatible changes:
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- The undocumented hardcode_libdir_flag_spec_ld tag variable has been
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removed in favor of using hardcode_libdir_flag_spec with $wl set to empty.
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* Changes in supported systems or compilers:
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- Fixes for gfortran on Darwin, XL Fortran on GNU/Linux.
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- Support for FreeBSD 1.x (outdated since 1994) has been removed.
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New in 2.4 2010-09-22: git version 2.2.11a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- Sysroot support. This allows you to build cross-compiled packages
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with the same prefix that will be used on the destination machine,
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and still find dependent libraries under the compiler's "sysroot".
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Without sysroot support, paths internal to the build system may leak
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into the product of the build.
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Sysroot support is disabled unless the --with-sysroot configure
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option is passed to configure, because .la files generated with
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sysroot support will _not_ be usable in general with older Libtools.
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- On non-cygwin Windows systems, we now lookup potential library
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file names without regard to file name case.
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- The old testsuite now uses the `parallel-tests' Automake test driver
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now for more concurrency and better test logging. For this, tests are
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run in verbose mode by default now.
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* Important incompatible changes:
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- Autoconf 2.62 and Automake 1.11.1 or newer are now required for
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bootstrapping Libtool. For using Libtool in your own projects,
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Autoconf 2.59 and Automake 1.9.6 should still work.
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- The fix_srcfile_path variable has been replaced by a more thorough
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mechanism triggered by the to_tool_file_cmd variable.
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* Changes in supported systems or compilers:
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- Initial support for the Microsoft C/C++ Compiler, with help from
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the compile script in unreleased Automake 1.12. Override the manifest
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tool used to embed the manifest resource through the environment
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variable MANIFEST_TOOL. Please note that the import library naming
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has changed (from foo-2.lib to foo.dll.lib) from when the code lived
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in its own git branch.
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- Initial support for the NAG Fortran compiler on GNU/Linux.
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* Bug fixes:
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- The `check-interactive' and `check-noninteractive' convenience make
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targets now also work for the old testsuite.
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- Warnings from Autoconf v2.67-36-g1e604ec about incomplete programs
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passed to AC_*_IFELSE tests have been fixed.
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- On IRIX, the test for -Wl,-exported_symbol now also works with gfortran.
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New in 2.2.10 2010-06-10: git version 2.2.9a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- On non-cygwin Windows systems, we no longer try to lookup the POSIX
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format path recorded in $libdir of a pseudo-library when looking up
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the location of the library with the native tools.
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New in 2.2.8 2010-06-05: git version 2.2.7c, Libtool team:
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* No new features:
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- Bumped version number and promoted 2.2.7b release candidate to a full
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stable release.
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New in 2.2.7b 2010-05-20: git version 2.2.7a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- Libtool ships and installs man pages for libtool and libtoolize now.
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- New libtool command line flag --help-all.
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- New libtool command line flag --no-silent (with alternate spelling
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--no-quiet). This flag (re)enables the default informational messages,
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but has no effect on so-called "verbose" output messages.
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- New libtool command line flag --no-verbose, which disables only
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the extra "verbose" output messages and has no effect on the
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default informational messages.
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- New convenience make targets `check-noninteractive' to avoid long testsuite
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runs on Windows with popup windows in the middle, and `check-interactive'
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for the complement set of tests.
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- New link mode flag -bindir to specify the location for installed PE DLLs.
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- Wrapper scripts and wrapper executables for programs linked against
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uninstalled shared libraries now support command-line options --lt-debug
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and --lt-dump-script.
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* Important incompatible changes:
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- The wrapper command line option support described above introduces the
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following incompatibility: the wrapper will remove any command line
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options that begin with '--lt-*' from the argument list before launching
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(uninstalled) programs. Any '--lt-*' option on the command line not
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recognized by the wrapper will result in an error.
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- The type of the symbol lists variables (lt_*_LTX_preloaded_symbols) has
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been fixed in the manual and in a couple of tests to match the actual
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implementation.
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* Changes in supported systems or compilers:
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- Improved support for 64bit Windows (mingw64).
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- Improved support for cegcc (Windows CE/PocketPC).
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- Support for GNU/kOpenSolaris (kopensolaris*-gnu).
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- Initial support for compilers on BlueGene BG/P.
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- Improved support for Atari FreeMiNT.
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- With binutils 2.19.50+, shared libraries can be built on AIX.
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- Initial support for the Cuda Compiler Driver on GNU/Linux.
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- Support for Haiku (i586-pc-haiku).
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- Initial support for GCC link-time optimization (LTO) flags.
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* Bug fixes:
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- Fix 2.2.6 regression that prevented using the libltdl macros together
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with Autoconf 2.59 (`possibly undefined macro: LT_LIBEXT').
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- Fix 2.2.4 regression that caused arguments with special characters
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to be mangled by the compile wrapper for uninstalled programs on MinGW.
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- libtool command line flag --verbose now also enables explicit
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verbose output, in addition to its previous behavior of (re)enabling
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only the default informational output. See New Features, --no-silent.
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- Link tests are guarded by cache variables so they can be avoided for
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bootstrapping purposes (e.g., when link tests are not possible).
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- Argument mangling of execute mode has been improved (i.e., lessened).
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- Fix 2.1b regression that caused nm to not be the default name lister.
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The regression affected mainly (arguably broken) cross compiles.
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- Fix long standing bug that caused compiler checks for Fortran and
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C++ compilers to run twice.
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- Link mode works around a parallel build failure on Darwin 9.6.0 due
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to the `ar' `flock'ing an archive upon extraction, by protecting the
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extraction of convenience archives with a lock.
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- The Libtool macro files do not contain instances of __oline__ any more,
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easing merges for configure scripts that are added to version control.
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- Fix ancient bug where "-Wc," was turned into "$wl" (typically "-Wl,")
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when using the compiler driver to link programs. Now "-Wc," is stripped
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just as it is when linking libraries through the compiler driver.
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- Symbol versioning works with the GNU gold linker now.
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- Fixes for detection of shared library dependencies on MinGW systems.
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- Fixed Sun compiler detection on Solaris with sunCC, sunf77 etc. names.
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* Miscellaneous changes:
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- The manual is distributed under the terms of the GNU FDL 1.3 now.
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New in 2.2.6 2008-09-05: git version 2.2.5a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- New lt_dloadvise_preload() call to set a hint that only preloadeded
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modules can be opened.
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- libtoolize no longer removes config.guess and config.sub, even when
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--install is passed.
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* Changes in supported systems or compilers:
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- Fixes for ifort on Darwin, and newer Intel compilers (icc 10, ifort 9)
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on GNU/Linux.
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- Fixes for cwrapper (cygwin/mingw) under -stdc=c99.
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- Support cross compile of MinGW with Wine.
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- Initial support for cegcc (Windows CE/PocketPC) cross compilation.
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- Initial support for lf95 (Lahey Fortran 8.1) on GNU/Linux.
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* Bug fixes:
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- Several testsuite issues have been fixed, thanks to user feedback.
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- Fix 2.2 regression that caused argz symbols to be exported from
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libltdl unrenamed on systems that do not have working argz.
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- Revert "lt_dlopen(NULL) works on AIX again.". It was not the
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correct fix.
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- Diagnose '-L' arguments correctly.
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- Libtool no longer tries to open devices as files in execute mode.
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- Libtool no longer removes *.gcno profile information from GCC.
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New in 2.2.4: 2008-05-04: git version 2.2.3a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- New libtoolize option --no-warn, for users that want to continue to
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use old libtool style without being nagged.
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- Options --debug, --no-warn, --quiet and --verbose can be passed to
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libtoolize through the environment variable LIBTOOLIZE_OPTIONS, for
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cleaner interaction between the user and libtoolize when called by
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autoreconf.
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* Bug fixes:
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- The documentation for lt_dlopenadvise showed the wrong type for
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the lt_dladvise parameter.
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- The public declarations for lt_dlhandle and lt_dladvise are now
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incomplete struct types rather than void*, which means that nearly
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all casting is eliminated allowing the compiler to provide more
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type checking.
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- libtoolize no longer reports up-to-date files that it would have
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copied, unless --force is passed.
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- No longer reports that lt~obsolete.m4 needs to be added to aclocal.m4
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when it is already there.
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- When `aclocal' copied the libtool macros directly into `aclocal.m4'
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(i.e. AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR is not being used), libtoolize no longer
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reports that all macros need to be added to `aclocal.m4', and
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diagnoses only the macro files that are missing or not up-to-date.
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- libtoolize now advises use of AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR to keep matching
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libtool macros in-tree where appropriate.
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- libtoolize now advises use of `ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4' (or
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equivalent) where appropriate, and errors out when ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS
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names a different directory to AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.
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New in 2.2.2: 2008-04-01: CVS version 2.2.1a, Libtool team:
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* New features:
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- In compile mode, compiler output occurs in the user locale. This
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feature has been present in 1.5.26 but not in 2.2.
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* Changes in supported systems or compilers:
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- Initial shared library support for AmigaOS4 on powerpc.
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* Bug fixes:
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- Fix 2.2 regression in libltdl that causes memory corruption upon
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repeated `lt_dlinit(); lt_dlexit()'.
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- Fix 2.2 regression in libltdl that skipped the dlopen loader if
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the system also supports other loaders (e.g., Cygwin, HP-UX).
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- Fix 2.2 regression in that `libtool --mode=execute CMD ARGS' does not
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transform ARGS that do not look like shell or C wrappers of libtool
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programs.
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- Fix 2.2 regression that kept cross-compiling to w32 from working.
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- Several testsuite issues have been fixed, thanks to user feedback.
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New in 2.2: 2008-03-01; CVS version 2.1c, Libtool team:
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* Bug fixes:
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- argz.c, lt__dirent.c and lt__strl.c are correctly distributed with
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parent projects using nonrecursive libltdl.
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- libtoolize no longer tries to install libtool files when libltdl is
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used in a non-autoconf parent package.
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- Don't add the CXX tag to libtool when there is no C++ compiler, even
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if AC_PROG_CXX sets a default g++ compiler where no such compiler
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actually exists.
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- make distcheck DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS=--disable-ltdl-install
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works again.
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New in 2.1b: 2008-02-01; CVS version 2.1a, Libtool team:
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* Important incompatible changes and obsoleted features:
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- Removed deprecated APIs from libltdl: lt_dlcaller_register,
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lt_dlhandle_next, lt_dlhandle_find, lt_dlforeach, lt_dlmutex_register,
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lt_dlmutex_lock, lt_dlmutex_unlock, lt_dlmutex_seterror,
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lt_dlmutex_geterror, lt_dlmalloc, lt_dlrealloc, lt_dlfree.
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- The Libtool and libltdl macros and the testsuite now assume a C89
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environment, consequently do not test for headers such as string.h,
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strings.h, memory.h any more.
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- Fix regression in libltdl symbol exports on Cygwin. Side effect:
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LT_GLOBAL_DATA and LT_SCOPE are now explicitly defined as
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declspec(dllexport), bypassing auto-export logic on Cygwin.
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This tracks existing behavior on MinGW.
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- The libtool script has been optimized a bit for more modern shells.
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This breaks use of the stdin file descriptor in libtool, and can
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break if a different shell is used to execute the libtool script
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than the one it was configured for.
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- The macros AC_ENABLE_SHARED, AC_DISABLE_SHARED, AC_ENABLE_STATIC, and
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AC_DISABLE_STATIC have been un-deprecated after deprecation in
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1.9b.
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- The macro LT_WITH_LTDL has been renamed to LTDL_INIT.
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- Fixed a branch-1-5/HEAD regression to only link uninstalled libraries
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statically with `-static'. In order to compensate for this, there
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is a new link flag `-static-libtool-libs' to provide the previous
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`-static' semantics.
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* New features:
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- Fix installation of libltdl so that it does not need Autoconf and
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Automake installed, in order to be usable in another package. This
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lifts the restrictions introduced in 1.9b.
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- Default convenience or installable libltdl builds can optionally
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be declared using new `convenience' or `installable' options to the
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LTDL_INIT macro (as an alternative to individual LTDL_CONVENIENCE
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or LTDL_INSTALLABLE invocations).
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- New configure-time options to allow libltdl parent project builder
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to choose between installed and shipped libltdl, when invoking
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LTDL_INIT: --with-included-ltdl, --with-ltdl-include,
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--with-ltdl-lib.
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- New LT_CONFIG_LTDL_DIR macro to specify a different directory name
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for a convenience libltdl.
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- libtoolize has been completely overhauled.
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- `libtoolize --install' now also installs `install-sh'.
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- New libtoolize options: --non-recursive, --recursive, --subproject.
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These options control the way libltdl is installed into a package by
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libtoolize. The new recursive and non-recursive build modes for
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libltdl don't require a subconfigure any more.
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The Libtool package itself builds libltdl nonrecursively.
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- The 'nonrecursive', 'recursive' and 'subproject' libltdl build
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modes are given as LTDL_INIT options.
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- New make variable LTDLDEPS for use in output_DEPENDENCIES.
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- New multi-module-loader safe libltdl handle iteration APIs:
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lt_dlhandle_iterate, lt_dlhandle_fetch, lt_dlhandle_map.
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- New lt_dlinterface_register to maintain separation of concerns
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between modules loaded by different libraries.
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- New lt_dlopenadvise takes a new lt_dladvise type argument, which
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lets the caller request local or global symbol visibility from the
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module loader with lt_dladvise_local and lt_dladvise_global
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respectively. If neither is given, or if lt_dlopen (or lt_dlopenext)
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are called, then the system default module symbol visibility is used.
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- The new lt_dladvise_init/lt_dladvise_destroy based APIs also allow
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caller requests for a filename extension search with lt_dladvise_ext,
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and for marking a module unloadable with lt_dladvise_resident.
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- Allow shell special characters like `$' in source file names, but
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not in object names, to enhance GCJ support.
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- An entire new Autotest-based testsuite in addition to the old one.
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Both testsuites have been made more useful for testing
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cross-compilers. The new testsuite exposes many more issues, but
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may also be a little rocky on exotic systems.
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- In 1.9b, a new variable inherited_linker_flags has been added to the
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libtool library files. This variable takes flags that should be
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used by dependent libraries and programs, but that do not fit into
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`dependency_libs' for both clarity and backward-compatibility.
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* Changes in supported systems or compilers:
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- Removed bitrotted support for xlc on Mac OS X.
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- Detection of compiler wrappers distcc/ccache and $host_alias prefix.
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- Basic support for PIE (position-independent executables).
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- Support for DragonFly BSD, improved support for FreeBSD.
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- Improved support for GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/NetBSD.
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- Support for Interix 3 (Windows SFU) and newer versions.
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- Support for AIX 6.1.
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- Improved support for UnixWare.
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- Initial support for RDOS.
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- Initial Support for FC (modern Fortran).
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- Support for Portland Group compiler, the Sun compiler suite on GNU/Linux,
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and initial support for the IBM compiler suite on GNU/Linux/ppc.
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- Support for linux-dietlibc (`diet' as well as `diet-dyn', separately).
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- Building libltdl with a C++ compiler has been undusted.
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- On (AIX?,) HP-UX, and OpenBSD, hardcoding has been changed to prefer
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rpath over absolute dependent library names. This fixes DESTDIR
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installs, among others, on the non-HP-UX/PA systems.
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- Use of C++ templates together with shared libraries has been
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improved on some systems and with some compilers, but is still
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ongoing work. Feedback is desirable here.
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* Bug fixes:
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- Fix libltdl on static platforms.
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- Search paths with GCC on multilib systems like x86_64 have been fixed.
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- Fixed a regression that prevented use of libltdl without autotools.
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- Fix error with -version-info on systems with version_type=none, such
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as BeOS.
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- Fix symbol exporting for cases where command line length limits are
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exceeded.
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- Improve linking with C++ libraries on Solaris with Sun compiler.
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- Fix installation of libraries that are required by installation
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commands such as `ln' or `rm'.
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- More robust parsing of mangled `.la' files inside libltdl, fixing a
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possible overrun and a crash due to memory exhaustion.
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- Fix compile command line for gcj on MinGW.
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- Some configure variables have been renamed to fix caching:
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lt_prog_compiler_pic_works to lt_cv_prog_compiler_pic_works
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lt_prog_compiler_static_works to lt_cv_prog_compiler_static_works.
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- Fix 1.9b regression: lt_dlopen(NULL) works on AIX again.
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- Loads of smaller bug fixes.
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New in 1.9f: 2004-10-23; CVS version 1.9e, Libtool team:
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* Fix a regression in 1.9d, where ECHO was always set to 'echo' and the
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backslash quoting tests were never run.
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* Fix a regression in 1.9d, where progpath was used for --no-reexec before it
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was set.
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* Fix a regression in 1.9d, which required an installed automake to build the
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bootstrapped tarball.
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* Fix hanging bug on MinGW.
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New in 1.9d: 2004-10-03; CVS version 1.9c, Libtool team:
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* If non-pic objects were not compiled, and libtool is called in link mode,
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libtool no longer silently creates an empty archive, but rather falls
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back to pic objects.
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* When compiling C glue code with $LTCC, libtool now saves the setting of
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$compiler_flags from the C tag, and passes those flags to $LTCC.
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* libtool no longer dies when concurrently creating directories with
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`make -j' on multi-processor hosts.
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* Return type, and name parameter of lt_dlloader_remove are no longer
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`const'.
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* Name parameter of lt_dlloader_find is no longer 'const'.
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* The API for the slist ADT has been updated: slist_new has been replaced
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by slist_box; slist_unbox and slist_sort are new; the footprint of
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slist_remove and slist_fnid have changed; SListCallback and SListCompare
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types have been exchanged. See libltdl/slist.c for documentation.
|
||
* libltdl is C89 compatible again. lt_dlsymbol type removed, and lt_dlsymlist
|
||
structure changed to avoid using C99 flexible arrays.
|
||
* Support self dlopening for executables on cygwin and mingw.
|
||
* Improved support for linux-gnu/ia64.
|
||
* Initial support for s390x-ibm-tpf.
|
||
* Fixed some memory leaks in libltdl.
|
||
* Improved support for OpenBSD (use rpath instead of hardcoding absolute
|
||
file names).
|
||
|
||
New in 1.9b: 2004-08-29; CVS version 1.5a, Libtool team:
|
||
* The /^_?LT_[A-Z_]+$/ namespace is now reserved for Libtool's own macros.
|
||
If you have any shell variables in this namespace they will need to be
|
||
renamed. If you have any macros in this namespace please rename them to
|
||
prevent any possible future clash with libtool supplied macros.
|
||
* New LT_PREREQ macro for specifying minimum libtool requirement.
|
||
* New LT_INIT interface replaces AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, AC_ENABLE_SHARED,
|
||
AC_DISABLE_SHARED, AC_ENABLE_STATIC, AC_DISABLE_STATIC,
|
||
AC_ENABLE_FAST_INSTALL, AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL, AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN,
|
||
AC_LIBTOOL_WIN32_DLL and AC_LIBTOOL_PIC_MODE. Use autoupdate to modernise
|
||
your configure.ac files after installing this release.
|
||
* New LT_LANG interface to enable libtool support for a specific language.
|
||
* Language support is now only included if your configure.ac enables it,
|
||
either through a call to AC_PROG_CXX etc. or LT_LANG.
|
||
* The libtool script will complain if it was built from mismatched ltmain.sh
|
||
and libtool m4 macro versions.
|
||
* Like automake, libtoolize no longer installs config.guess and config.sub by
|
||
default. Use new --install option to get the old behaviour.
|
||
* libtoolize no longer supports the --ltdl-tar option.
|
||
* libtool script is now created by config.status. Instead of interrogating
|
||
`./libtool' from configure.ac after calling AC_PROG_LIBTOOL, use the
|
||
variable names directly.
|
||
* libltdl is no longer a self-contained package, and shares configury with
|
||
the top level directory now.
|
||
* Shared objects (.lo) are no longer created when `-static' is passed in
|
||
compile mode.
|
||
* New compile mode option `-shared' prevents creation of static objects (.o).
|
||
* New link mode option `-shared' creates only shared libraries at link time.
|
||
* If you configure libtool with --disable-shared (or if libtool does not
|
||
support shared libraries on your platform) trying to build a library using
|
||
`-shared' is a fatal error.
|
||
* New link mode option `-weak' tells libtool when not to propogate dependency
|
||
libraries from dlpreopened modules.
|
||
* libtoolize installs libtool.m4, (ltdl.m4 if used,) and various supporting
|
||
m4 definitions to AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR.
|
||
* Mode inferrence removed, shorthand for choosing modes added.
|
||
* Specifying -allow-undefined is now an error.
|
||
* Speed up max_cmd_len check.
|
||
* libltdl can now preopen modules from within a library, and libtool will
|
||
accept -dlpreopen options when linking either a shared library or a
|
||
convenience library.
|
||
* New function in libltdl: lt_dlhandle_find provides access to module handles
|
||
by module name.
|
||
* New function in libltdl: lt_dlpreload_open opens all preloaded modules.
|
||
* libltdl no longer loads shared libraries with global symbol resolution,
|
||
this caused problems when the symbols were intended to be overriden further
|
||
up the stack; it is also not recommended practice.
|
||
* New function in libltdl: lt_dlhandle_first, primes handle iterations (using
|
||
lt_dlhandle_next) to filter by module interface.
|
||
* libltdl no longer tries to support multi-threaded programming with
|
||
lt_dlmutex_register(), which was unusable with POSIX threads anyway.
|
||
The symbols are deprecated but exported for backwards compatibility.
|
||
* libltdl no longer uses lt_dlmalloc, lt_dlrealloc and lt_dlfree. The symbols
|
||
are still exported for backwards compatibility.
|
||
* The lt_dlinfo struct has a new module field that can be used by dlloaders.
|
||
* libltdl no longer supports pre-c89 compilers. Some of the pre89 portability
|
||
functions had compile time bugs in them anyway, so you guys can't have been
|
||
using it :-)
|
||
* make install now deletes preexisting $prefix/share/libtool before installing
|
||
latest files.
|
||
* Extracting symbols from an import library on cygwin and win32 now works.
|
||
* Initial support for amigaos-ppc.
|
||
* Improved support for OpenBSD.
|
||
* Support for Intel C++ version 8.0.
|
||
* New support for IBM's xlc and xlc++ on Mac OS X.
|
||
* Finished support for QNX RTOS.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.5.8: 2004-08-07; CVS version 1.5.7a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Support for Intel C++ version 8.0.
|
||
* Improved support for OpenBSD.
|
||
* Support for xlc on Mac OS X.
|
||
* Better support for zsh as /bin/sh.
|
||
* Much faster check for command line length on all BSD systems.
|
||
* Better Mac OS X/darwin support.
|
||
* Bug Fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.5.6: 2004-04-11; CVS version 1.5.5a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Installs libltdl files properly in $prefix/share/libtool/libltdl. 1.5.4
|
||
did not install them at all.
|
||
* libltdl correctly guesses the extension for loadable modules again.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.5.4: 2004-04-03; CVS version 1.5.3a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.5.2: 2004-01-25; CVS version 1.5.0a, Libtool team:
|
||
* lt_dlrealloc is an official part of the libltdl API.
|
||
* --tag, --silent and --debug options are preserved and reused when libtool
|
||
calls itself for relinking etc.
|
||
* `-pthread' and similar options are honoured when linking shared libraries.
|
||
* -no-suppress in compile mode shows compiler output for both PIC and non-PIC
|
||
object compilation.
|
||
* New link mode option `-precious-files-regex' to prevent accidental removal
|
||
of files you want to keep, such as test coverage data, from the temporary
|
||
output directory.
|
||
* Directories specified in /etc/ld.so.conf are no longer hardcoded on GNU/Linux.
|
||
* Recognises the 'R' symbol type on Solaris so read-only symbols can be
|
||
exported.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.5.1: 2003-??-??; CVS version 1.5.0a, Libtool team:
|
||
* lt_dlrealloc is an official part of the libltdl API.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.5: 2003-04-14; CVS version 1.4e, Libtool team:
|
||
* First stable release of multi-language architecture.
|
||
* libtool and libltdl support for Mac OS/X.
|
||
* libltdl will now use cygwins dlopen API instead of always forcing
|
||
LoadLibrary.
|
||
* Support auto-import patch to binutils on cygwin for much improved dll
|
||
support.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.4.3: 2002-10-13; CVS version 1.4.2a, Robert Boehne:
|
||
* The libltdl subdirectory now bootstraps correctly with Automake 1.5.
|
||
* srcdir != builddir builds with Automake 1.5 work correctly.
|
||
* Support for mips-compaq-nonstopux.
|
||
* New command line argument, --preserve-dup-deps prevents removal of
|
||
duplicate dependent libraries.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.4d: 2002-01-07; CVS version 1.4c, Libtool team:
|
||
* Help strings display correctly again.
|
||
* Better error messages when library linking fails.
|
||
* Better error messages from libltdl when loading fails.
|
||
* Better search path management in libltdl with `lt_dlinsertsearchdir' call.
|
||
* Support /lib/w32api in recent cygwin releases.
|
||
* Support cross compilation to mingw.
|
||
* Support for .rc files (Windows resource compiler).
|
||
* Improved handling of mingw gcc.
|
||
* Improved handling of $PATH with entries containing spaces.
|
||
* Improved support for linking with gcc on aix4* and aix5*.
|
||
* Improved support for GCC 3.0.
|
||
* Initial support for QNX RTOS, UnixWare 7 and OpenUNIX 8.
|
||
* Bug fixes to the OpenBSD port.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.4.2: 2001-09-11; CVS version 1.4.1a, Gary V. Vaughan:
|
||
* libltdl now builds on solaris again
|
||
* diagnose and warn about not-quite-working combinations of gcc and
|
||
ld on solaris.
|
||
* Improved OpenBSD support.
|
||
* Improved cygwin support.
|
||
* Bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.4.1: 2001-09-03; CVS version 1.4.0a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Better error messages from libltdl when loading fails.
|
||
* Don't leave here-doc files behind.
|
||
* Improved support for OpenBSD.
|
||
* Libtool will build with autoconf-2.50 and higher.
|
||
* Plug memory management bugs in libltdl.
|
||
* Prefer shl_load to dlopen for better operation on HP-UX.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.4b: 2001-07-09; CVS version 1.4a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Now bootstraps with autoconf-2.50 and automake-1.4-p4.
|
||
* Always try to build at least a static lib, even if both static and
|
||
shared libs were disabled.
|
||
* Full support for C++ compiler.
|
||
* Support for GNU gcj compiler.
|
||
* libltdl can now load all modules in a given path according to user
|
||
supplied criteria with `lt_dlforeachfile' call.
|
||
* Improved support for AIX ia64, djgpp, HPUX, hurd, OpenBSD, sco3.2*.
|
||
* Internal mutex handling no longer has namespace clashes on NCR MP-RAS.
|
||
* New pdemo and tagdemo tests.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.4: 2001-04-25; CVS version 1.3e, Libtool team:
|
||
* Support for aix5*.
|
||
* Bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3d: 2001-04-02; CVS version 1.3c, Libtool team:
|
||
* ltconfig is no more. Generation of libtool happens directly from
|
||
the configure file.
|
||
* Multithread safe with lt_dlmutex_register callback registration.
|
||
* New -no-install flag to avoid the use of executable wrapper scripts.
|
||
* New --with-pic, -prefer-pic and -prefer-non-pic flags to control
|
||
the generation of PIC/non-PIC code.
|
||
* Support for hardcoding run-time paths (-R) into libraries.
|
||
* Support -dlopen and -dlpreopen for libraries.
|
||
* Libtool now allows you to link shared libraries against static code.
|
||
* New functions in libltdl:
|
||
lt_dlgetinfo, lt_dlhandle_next and lt_dlforeach provide access to module
|
||
specific data in handles.
|
||
lt_dlcaller_register, lt_dlcaller_set_data and lt_dlcaller_get_data provide
|
||
management for user storage of per module data.
|
||
lt_dlloader_next, lt_dlloader_name, lt_dlloader_find, lt_dlloader_add and
|
||
lt_dlloader_remove can be used for adding new types of module loaders.
|
||
lt_dladderror, lt_dlseterror integrate user module loaders with lt_dlerror.
|
||
* "-Xcompiler" and "-Wc," does now work in compile mode, too.
|
||
* Support recent dlltool formats.
|
||
* Start of support code for cross-compiling to win32.
|
||
* libltdl can now be built as a dll with win32.
|
||
* m4 macros needed to configure libltdl split out into libltdl/ltdl.m4.
|
||
* New port to NEWS-OS Release 6.
|
||
* Improved support for darwin (rhapsody), mingw32, NetBSD, Compaq Tru64 V5.0
|
||
and Digital Unix V4.*.
|
||
* Initial support for ia64 linux.
|
||
* Initial support for a.out freebsd shared libs.
|
||
* Initial support for Paul Sokolovsky's pw32 POSIX over win32 layer.
|
||
* Many bugfixes (especially in libltdl)
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3b: 1999-07-02; CVS version 1.3a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Complete inter-library dependencies support. It's now possible
|
||
to link libtool libraries against other libtool libraries.
|
||
* Libtool is able to find already-installed libtool libraries,
|
||
even if they were moved out of their installation directory.
|
||
* New "-Wc,flag" and "-Xcompiler flag" flags to pass flags
|
||
directly to the compiler
|
||
* New "-Wl,flag" and "-Xlinker flag" flags to pass flags
|
||
directly to the linker
|
||
* New "-no-fast-install" flag to selectively disable fast-install mode.
|
||
* Support for installing stripped libraries using GNU strip (install -s).
|
||
Automake >= 1.5 will install stripped libraries with "make install-strip".
|
||
* Allow linking shared libraries against static ones
|
||
on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, GNU Hurd and Solaris
|
||
* Support for linking DLLs on Win32
|
||
* New `clean' mode to delete uninstalled files.
|
||
* New demos and tests
|
||
* Various bugfixes
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3.5: 2000-05-27, CVS version 1.3.4a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Support for mac OS X (rhapsody).
|
||
* Support for *-sequent-sysv4.
|
||
* Support for Cygwin-1.1.0.
|
||
* Support recent dlltool formats.
|
||
* Bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3.4: 1999-12-08, CVS version 1.3.3a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Support for Compaq Tru64 V5.0.
|
||
* Improved support for Digital Unix V4.*.
|
||
* Improved support for NetBSD, FreeBSD and Unixware.
|
||
* Many fine bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3.3: 1999-07-02, CVS version 1.3.2a, Libtool team:
|
||
* New `-dlpreopen force' flag to ensure that
|
||
lt_preloaded_symbols is always defined.
|
||
* Work around self-dlclose bug in FreeBSD 3.1.
|
||
* Expand convenience libraries when creating reloadable objects.
|
||
* Do not forget to import -L flags of convenience libraries.
|
||
* Do not pass -whole-archive or equivalent to symbol extractor.
|
||
* Create directory to expand convenience libraries only when needed.
|
||
* Improved support for Cygwin, DJGPP and NetBSD
|
||
* Various bugfixes
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3.2: 1999-05-26, CVS version 1.3.1a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Avoid circular links of objects and libraries.
|
||
* Look for dlerror when dlopen was found in -ldl (typo).
|
||
* Disable shared libraries with broken GNU ld on Solaris.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3.1: 1999-05-21, CVS version 1.3.0a, Libtool team:
|
||
* Documentation improvements; recommend automake users to insert libtool.m4
|
||
in acinclude.m4
|
||
* AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE and AC_LIBLTDL_INSTALLABLE now set INCLTDL.
|
||
* New port to NEC UX/4800.
|
||
* cygwin-b20.1 passes all tests.
|
||
* Slightly improved BeOS support.
|
||
* Many AIX 4.3.2 test failures have gone.
|
||
* Pass unknown -L arguments through to the linker (for -LANG:* support).
|
||
* Close a security hole with mode 777 directory during libltdl installation.
|
||
* Fixed the infamous ``ifelse'' bug in libtool.m4
|
||
|
||
New in 1.3: 1999-04-29, Libtool team:
|
||
* This is just a summary of the changes since 1.2.
|
||
See the news of intermediate alpha releases below for details.
|
||
* Support for convenience archives.
|
||
* New maintainers. Anonymous CVS and home page at gnu.org.
|
||
* Portable dlopening interface with libltdl, new -module flag.
|
||
* Correctly link installed libtool libraries into programs and other
|
||
libtool libraries. Linking of uninstalled libtool libraries into
|
||
libraries is under development for 1.4.
|
||
* Do not drop library dependencies on platforms that allow them.
|
||
* Linking with uninstalled libraries no longer picks installed ones by
|
||
mistake.
|
||
* Use libraries from the build tree when running uninstalled
|
||
executables (may require double linking).
|
||
* Allow developers to optimize for build-tree executions.
|
||
* Support -export-symbols-regex for controlled symbol exporting.
|
||
* Support -R to hardcode directories in library search paths.
|
||
* New ports, demos and tests. Lots of improvements and bug fixes.
|
||
|
||
New in CVS version 1.2g, Libtool team:
|
||
* AM_PROG_LIBTOOL is smaller and faster
|
||
* AC_LIBTL_L_WIN32_DLL is required in configure.in for libtool to
|
||
attempt to build dlls on win32 hosts
|
||
* Shared libraries on AmigaOS up to version 4 are now disabled
|
||
since they don't meet libtool's requirements for shared libraries
|
||
* -L supports now relative directories
|
||
* Libltdl has a new license: LGPL with a special exception
|
||
* Libltdl can be used as stand-alone package
|
||
* dlopen support for BeOS
|
||
* Partial support for Motorola System V 4
|
||
* Improved support for AIX, BeOS, Cygwin, DJGPP, DU, IRIX and HP/UX
|
||
* Documentation updates
|
||
* New tests
|
||
* Bugfixes
|
||
|
||
New in 1.2f: 1999-03-15; CVS version 1.2e, Libtool team:
|
||
* libtool will correctly link uninstalled libraries into programs
|
||
and prefer uninstalled libraries to installed ones
|
||
* Library paths that are in the system default run-time search path
|
||
are no longer hardcoded into executables.
|
||
* New fast installation mode, which links the final executable
|
||
in order to avoid relinking during installation.
|
||
Programs in the build-tree are relinked when executed.
|
||
* New AC_DISABLE_FAST_INSTALL macro to set the default for
|
||
the fast-install mode to disabled
|
||
* New -export-symbols-regex flag, to export symbols selectively by
|
||
a regular expression
|
||
* Support -R for specifying run-time path of programs and library dependencies
|
||
* New -avoid-version option to avoid versioning for libraries
|
||
* libtool module names no longer need to have a "lib" prefix
|
||
(requires automake 1.4).
|
||
* New -thread-safe flag, to build thread-safe libraries
|
||
* Major improvements in libltdl: API documentation, installable version,
|
||
support for module search paths, support for lt_dlopen(0),
|
||
can be embedded into packages as a tar file (libltdl.tar.gz),
|
||
dynamic buffer allocation and buffer overflow checks,
|
||
new macro LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS() which must be used in the
|
||
main program, dynamic memory allocation functions are user-defineable
|
||
* New AC_LIBLTDL_CONVENIENCE and AC_LIBLTDL_INSTALLABLE macros, to select
|
||
convenience and/or installable versions of libltdl.
|
||
* libltdl is now built and installed unless --disable-ltdl-install
|
||
* New "-dlopen self" flag for dlopening the executable itself
|
||
* New AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN macro to check for dlopen support,
|
||
required if you use -dlopen or -dlpreopen
|
||
* If libtool could not satisfy all dependencies of a module
|
||
it will only build a static version of it
|
||
* dld_preloaded_symbols was renamed to lt_preloaded_symbols
|
||
* Support for BeOS
|
||
* Improved support for FreeBSD, AIX, IRIX, OSF, SysV 4.3, HP/UX, DJGPP
|
||
BSD/OS 4.x and NetBSD
|
||
* In order for libtool to attempt to link a shared library (dll) on win32
|
||
platforms, you must pass the -no-undefined flag to libtool in link mode.
|
||
* The path to GNU ld now works on cygwin-b18 to cygwin-b20.2 at least.
|
||
* Support for IRIX library versioning.
|
||
* New demos and tests
|
||
* Various bugfixes
|
||
|
||
New in 1.2d: 1998-12-16; CVS version 1.2c, Libtool team:
|
||
* libtool will correctly link already-installed libraries into programs.
|
||
* New -module flag, to create loadable modules.
|
||
* New libltdl, a small library for portable dlopening of modules.
|
||
It is still undocumented, but you can already find some examples in:
|
||
* New mdemo directory, with tests of -module and dlopening examples.
|
||
Be aware that libltdl is only known to work on a few platforms such as
|
||
GNU/Linux and Solaris2. Some mdemo tests are known to FAIL on several
|
||
other platforms; please ignore these failures by now (or work to fix
|
||
them :-).
|
||
* Inter-library dependencies patch finally integrated, but there's
|
||
still much porting to do. See PORTING for details (some plans for the
|
||
future in mail/deplibs in the CVS tree).
|
||
* New option -export-symbols to control symbol exporting when possible.
|
||
* Fixed -export-dynamic problem with C++ programs in egcs 1.1.
|
||
* New dlpreopen structure.
|
||
* libtool now supports `-c -o' and subdirectories in sources and
|
||
target object names even in platforms whose compilers do not support
|
||
this. In this case, file locking occurs to avoid problems with
|
||
parallel builds.
|
||
* New `echo' variant that should fix most problems with long command
|
||
lines and broken printf programs.
|
||
* Support for DG/UX, UnixWare 7.x and FreeBSD 3.0, and improved
|
||
support for Microsoft Windows
|
||
* Various bugfixes
|
||
* We now have anonymous CVS access to GNU libtool. CVSROOT is
|
||
:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.gnu.org:/gd/gnu/anoncvsroot. The password
|
||
is empty. The directory is libtool. Check our home-page at
|
||
http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html for details.
|
||
* Alexandre Oliva, Thomas Tanner and Gary V. Vaughan have taken over
|
||
the maintenance of libtool.
|
||
* Arguments to ltconfig have been changed to allow creation of a
|
||
libtool C program, totally unusable as of this release.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.2b - 1998-07-01, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
||
* Libtool needs a new maintainer, since Gordon Matzigkeit has quit.
|
||
If you think you can do the job, send mail to bug-libtool@gnu.org.
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
* Support for libtool convenience archives.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.2a - 1998-04-19, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
* ltconfig accepts an `--output' option to specify the name of the
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generated libtool.
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* New `--debug' flag to turn on shell script tracing for libtool,
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libtoolize, and ltconfig.
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* Added `libtool --config' to print out all configuration variables.
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* Support for *-*-hpux11*.
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New in 1.2 - 1998-03-20, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* Minor bug fixes to provide a stable public release.
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* Libtool no longer cseses Solaris printf to barf due to silly
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2110-byte static buffers.
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New in 1.1 - 1998-03-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
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* Bug fixes.
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* http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/ is libtool's homepage.
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* `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' supports turning shared or static libraries off
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with the `--enable-shared=PKGS' and `--enable-static=PKGS' configure
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flags. See (libtool)AM_PROG_LIBTOOL.
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* Use the `AM_DISABLE_SHARED' or `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' macros if you
|
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wish to modify the default behaviour of `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' for your
|
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package.
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* New rules for `AM_PROG_LD' to use gcc's `-print-prog-name' flag in
|
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order to find ld, if possible.
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* Suppress duplicate compiler output during `compile' mode.
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* Deleted `dlname' mode. Dlopen applications should only use the
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runtime search method described in (libtool)Finding the dlname.
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* Experimental support for dynamically loaded modules, even on
|
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static-only platforms, via new `-dlopen' and `-dlpreopen' link
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flags.
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* `compile' mode honours the `-static' flag to prevent libtool
|
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from building PIC objects.
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* New `execute' mode to support debugging uninstalled libtool
|
||
libraries and executables.
|
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* `-allow-undefined' is now the default. You can use `-no-undefined'
|
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to declare that a shared library is completely self-contained.
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* Inter-library dependencies are automatically handled when linking
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against an uninstalled `.la' file.
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* New `-all-static' flag to prevent any dynamic linking. The regular
|
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`-static' flag now just prevents dynamic linking of libtool libraries.
|
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* New `-release' flag to encode release numbers into libtool
|
||
libraries. This breaks binary compatibility, but is useful for
|
||
libraries whose interfaces change very frequently. See
|
||
(libtool)Versioning.
|
||
* The `-rpath' flag can be used to hardcode absolute directories when
|
||
linking executables using libtool.
|
||
* New robust quoting code to handle any metacharacters passed in
|
||
arguments to libtool commands.
|
||
* Full support for broken collect2 on AIX 3. Shared libraries
|
||
can now be built with all working versions of GCC on AIX.
|
||
* Shell script speed optimizations for old and buggy /bin/sh systems,
|
||
such as HP-UX 9 and SunOS 4.1.4.
|
||
* Maybe use `_libs' as a temporary libtool directory instead of `.libs'
|
||
in order to cope with MS-DOS filenames.
|
||
* Portability fixes for Windows NT.
|
||
* Refuse to create libtool libraries that don't begin with `lib'.
|
||
This allows us to correctly handle OSes that don't have the `lib'
|
||
prefix by default, such as OS/2.
|
||
* Support for *-*-amigaos*, *-*-os2*, *-*-sysv4.2uw2*, and *-*-uts4*.
|
||
|
||
New in 1.0 - 1997-07-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
* Better configuration test to find the system linker. The old test
|
||
was failing because people frequently install GNU ld, but don't
|
||
necessarily configure GCC to use it.
|
||
* Automake support for Libtool now uses the LTLIBRARIES primary. See
|
||
the Automake documentation for more information.
|
||
* Added new `--disable-static' flag to disable building static
|
||
libraries on platforms that have shared libs.
|
||
* New `-allow-undefined' link flag to build shared libs that contain
|
||
references to unresolved symbols.
|
||
* Removed all support for creating static-only libraries.
|
||
* Basic support for dynamically loaded modules: new `-export-dynamic'
|
||
linking flag and corresponding `dlname' mode.
|
||
* New `--features' flag to display configured libtool attributes.
|
||
* Added support for installing libtool objects, both in absolute and
|
||
relative directories.
|
||
* Support *-*-linux-gnu* as an alias for *-*-linux*.
|
||
* Support for *-*-openbsd* and *-*-freebsd3*.
|
||
|
||
New in 0.9 - 1997-02-03, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
||
* Bug fixes.
|
||
* The libtool demo now uses the libm cos(3) function, to demonstrate
|
||
inter-library dependencies.
|
||
* The PLATFORMS file has been moved to doc/platforms.texi.
|
||
|
||
New in 0.8 - 1997-01-26, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
||
* Bug fixes, and more documentation.
|
||
* Basic support for other language compilers (C++, Fortran, and
|
||
preprocessed assembler).
|
||
* Libtool is now more persistent when linking with the `-static'
|
||
flag fails.
|
||
* New test for hardcoding system linkers, to verify that libtool
|
||
neither creates incorrect binaries, nor takes unnecessary
|
||
precautions while linking against uninstalled shared libraries.
|
||
* For clarity, the demo subdirectory no longer uses ansi2knr, and has
|
||
been rewritten to avoid ANSI-only constructs.
|
||
* Support for *-*-irix5, *-*-irix6*, and *-*-sco3.2v5*.
|
||
|
||
New in 0.7 - 1996-12-08, Gordon Matzigkeit:
|
||
* Total rewrite of libtool, along with a new model for library building.
|
||
* Completely rewritten documentation for the new paradigm.
|
||
* Sane handling of broken system linkers, such as the ones on AIX
|
||
and HP-UX.
|
||
* configure mode is now a separate program, `ltconfig'
|
||
* The libinfo helper script has been incorporated into the main
|
||
libtool program.
|
||
* Automatic mode guessing, based on the command line.
|
||
* Full support for Automake 1.2 (including ansi2knr features).
|
||
* Support to create reloadable objects using link mode.
|
||
* Support for new `-static' linking flag.
|
||
* Support for stripping libraries during installation.
|
||
* Library version information is now passed on the command line, not
|
||
through a version file.
|
||
|
||
Version 0.6 was never released.
|
||
|
||
New in 0.5:
|
||
* Disabled install-progs until next version, when it will be correctly
|
||
implemented.
|
||
* Clearer library versioning documentation. See (libtool)Versioning.
|
||
* Renamed gm_PROG_LIBTOOL to AM_PROG_LIBTOOL
|
||
* Libtool now creates pseudo-objects named foo.lo and pseudo-archives named
|
||
libfoo.la instead of foo.o and libfoo.a. See the documentation.
|
||
* libtool compile doesn't interfere with user CFLAGS if they don't
|
||
conflict with the current objtype. From Karl Berry.
|
||
* Created new libinfo helper script.
|
||
* libversion.in files are obsolete -- libtool uses libinfo to read the
|
||
new LIBINFO files.
|
||
* Libtool is better at finding its config file and helper scripts.
|
||
* Support for *-*-gnu*
|
||
|
||
New in 0.4:
|
||
* Bug fixes and new regression tests
|
||
* On unsupported configurations, ``libtool configure'' demotes OBJTYPES to
|
||
`standard' instead of aborting
|
||
* Added new object type, `t', for tcov(1) support
|
||
* Support for *-*-aix3*, *-*-aix4*, *-*-hpux10*, *-*-osf3*, and *-*-solaris2*
|
||
|
||
New in 0.3:
|
||
* Bug fixes and new regression tests
|
||
* Added new uninstall-libs mode
|
||
* Added a host argument to configure mode
|
||
* Fixed debugging/hyper-optimizing flags conflict (from Karl Berry)
|
||
* Support for --no-whole-archive when needed by GNU ld (from Ulrich Drepper)
|
||
* Implementation of --enable-linktype, --enable-profile, --enable-shared,
|
||
--enable-static in gm_PROG_LIBTOOL macro
|
||
* New `libtoolize' program (modeled after GNU gettext's `gettextize') to help
|
||
conversion to libtool
|
||
* New ABOUT-LIBS document for inclusion with libtool-supported packages
|
||
|
||
New in 0.2:
|
||
* Support for *-*-linux
|
||
* Better checking for GNU ld
|
||
* Reimplemented the config file so that it corresponds more closely to the
|
||
variables listed in (libtool)Porting Libtool.
|
||
* Reimplemented the shared library version scheme. See (libtool)Versioning.
|
||
* Replaced `--config-file' and `--version-file' options with `--confdir'
|
||
* Added new install-libs and install-progs modes
|
||
|
||
New in 0.1:
|
||
* First release of libtool
|
||
* Support for: *-*-freebsd*, *-*-netbsd*, *-*-sunos4*, *-*-ultrix4*
|
||
--
|
||
Copyright (C) 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
|
||
2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
||
|
||
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.
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