* NEWS: Explain more fully why we no longer load libraries

with global symbol resolution.
* doc/libtool.texi (libtool script contents): Add missing
documentation for 'inherit_rpath' variable.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 89b5b511c8cb8d48b233b582fccce2b5292d8b8b..1b5a0cb71bcdd7ec15c07339f89d9540449c7e46 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2004-03-24  Scott James Remnant  <scott@netsplit.com>
 
+       * NEWS: Explain more fully why we no longer load libraries
+       with global symbol resolution.
+       * doc/libtool.texi (libtool script contents): Add missing
+       documentation for 'inherit_rpath' variable.
+
        * configure.ac: Catch errors during calls to AC_PROG_CXX,
        AC_PROG_CXXCPP and AC_PROG_F77 before LT_INIT.  Only set the
        HAVE_CXX and HAVE_F77 conditions to true if an error didn't

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0d7c25a45580ec8b4b6b6bac6a24b6a323c24d13..0279f54e0e842fa3365fc0c89cf9c4c8c89d6fe7 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -37,7 +37,9 @@ New in 1.5b: 2004-??-??; CVS version 1.5a, Libtool team:
 * Speed up max_cmd_len check.
 * New function in libltdl: lt_dlhandle_find provides access to module handles
   by module name.
-* libltdl no longer loads shared libraries with global symbol resolution.
+* 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.
 * make install now deletes preexisting $prefix/share/libtool before installing
   latest files.
 * Extracting symbols from an import library on cygwin and win32 now works.

diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi
index 6ea909b0a53561b63ceec9b351c24663cb22db4a..2a44c1f395c4a5ad5569e172f85409e59b32b568 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/libtool.texi
+++ b/doc/libtool.texi
@@ -4713,6 +4713,12 @@ the system that libtool was configured for.
 List of symbols that must always be exported when using @var{export_symbols}.
 @end defvar
 
+@defvar inherit_rpath
+Whether the linker adds runtime paths of dependency libraries to the
+runtime path list, requiring libtool to relink the output when installing.
+Set to @samp{yes} or @samp{no}.  Default is @samp{no}.
+@end defvar
+
 @defvar libext
 The standard old archive suffix (normally "a").
 @end defvar