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To: info-gnu@gnu.org Subject: libtool-1.1 is released From: Free Software Foundation <gnu@gnu.org> Date: 08 Mar 1998 23:24:09 -0700Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Hi, all! I'm pleased to announce the official release of GNU libtool 1.1. This release should apppear shortly on your nearest GNU mirror, and at the GNU master site: <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libtool-1.1.tar.gz>; Diffs and xdeltas from 1.0 are also available in the same location. For those who aren't familiar with libtool, here is an excerpt from the package README: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This is GNU Libtool, a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface. To use libtool, add the new generic library building commands to your Makefile, Makefile.in, or Makefile.am. See the documentation for details. Libtool supports building static libraries on all platforms. Shared library support has been implemented for these platforms: AIX 3.x (*-*-aix3*) AIX 4.x (*-*-aix4*) AmigaOS (*-*-amigaos*) Digital/UNIX 3.x, 4.x, a.k.a. OSF/1 (*-*-osf3*, *-*-osf4*) FreeBSD 2.x, 3.x (*-*-freebsd2*, *-*-freebsd3*) HP-UX 9.x, 10.x (*-*-hpux9*, *-*-hpux10*) [see note] IRIX 5.x, 6.x (*-*-irix5*, *-*-irix6*) Linux ELF (*-*-linux*, except aout, coff, and oldld) NetBSD 1.x (*-*-netbsd*) OpenBSD 2.x (*-*-openbsd*) OS/2 using EMX (*-*-os2*) SCO OpenServer 5.x (*-*-sco3.2v5*) Solaris 2.x (*-*-solaris2*) SunOS 4.x, a.k.a. Solaris 1.x (*-*-sunos4*) UnixWare 2.x (*-*-sysv4.2uw2*) UTS 4.x (*-*-uts4*) All ELF targets that use both the GNU C compiler (gcc) and GNU ld NOTE: The vendor-distributed HP-UX sed(1) programs are horribly broken, and cannot handle libtool's requirements, so users may report unusual problems. There is no workaround except to install a working sed (such as GNU sed) on these systems. Libtool's home page is: http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/ - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >From the NEWS file, the list of user-visible changes between libtool-1.0 and libtool-1.1 is: - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- New in 1.1 - 1998-03-08, Gordon Matzigkeit: * Bug fixes. * http://www.profitpress.com/libtool/ is libtool's homepage. * `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' supports turning shared or static libraries off with the `--enable-shared=PKGS' and `--enable-static=PKGS' configure flags. See (libtool)AM_PROG_LIBTOOL. * Use the `AM_DISABLE_SHARED' or `AM_DISABLE_STATIC' macros if you wish to modify the default behaviour of `AM_PROG_LIBTOOL' for your package. * New rules for `AM_PROG_LD' to use gcc's `-print-prog-name' flag in order to find ld, if possible. * Suppress duplicate compiler output during `compile' mode. * Deleted `dlname' mode. Dlopen applications should only use the runtime search method described in (libtool)Finding the dlname. * Experimental support for dynamically loaded modules, even on static-only platforms, via new `-dlopen' and `-dlpreopen' link flags. * `compile' mode honours the `-static' flag to prevent libtool from building PIC objects. * New `execute' mode to support debugging uninstalled libtool libraries and executables. * `-allow-undefined' is now the default. You can use `-no-undefined' to declare that a shared library is completely self-contained. * Inter-library dependencies are automatically handled when linking against an uninstalled `.la' file. * New `-all-static' flag to prevent any dynamic linking. The regular `-static' flag now just prevents dynamic linking of libtool libraries. * 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*. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Many thanks to all the people who have made this release possible. Please report bugs to the libtool mailing list <bug-libtool@gnu.org>. If you wish to subscribe to bug-libtool, you can send mail to <bug-libtool-request@gnu.org>... be patient, though... the list is manually administered. Have fun! - -- Gordon Matzigkeit \ Proudly running pieces of the GNU operating system. gord@profitpress.com \ Jacques Cousteau loved programming in assembler. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GNU source code is available at the following mirror ftp sites in addition to ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu... 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