+1998-11-11 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
+
+ * NEWS: updated
+ * PORTING: new file, with general instructions and inter-library
+ dependencies tips
+
1998-11-11 Gary V, Vaughan <gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk>
- * ltconfig.in: make use of '~' field separator in reload_cmds,
- old_archive_from_new_cmds, old_archive_cmds, archive_cmds,
- old_postinstall_cmds, postinstall_cmds, old_postuninstall_cmds,
- postuninstall_cmds and finish_cmds, so that the semi-colons inside
- if/then/else/fi and for/do/done etc. do not break the eval loop in
- ltmain.in (below).
- * ltmain.in: changed all of the eval loops to use an IFS of `~',
- to allow differentiation between the end-of-statement-;
+ * ltconfig.in: make use of '~' field separator in reload_cmds,
+ old_archive_from_new_cmds, old_archive_cmds, archive_cmds,
+ old_postinstall_cmds, postinstall_cmds, old_postuninstall_cmds,
+ postuninstall_cmds and finish_cmds, so that the semi-colons inside
+ if/then/else/fi and for/do/done etc. do not break the eval loop in
+ ltmain.in (below).
+ * ltmain.in: changed all of the eval loops to use an IFS of `~',
+ to allow differentiation between the end-of-statement-;
(now `~' is used) and end-of-substatement-; (still `;'). This
- fixes AIX and win32 at least.
+ fixes AIX and win32 at least.
1998-11-11 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
1998-11-07 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
* ltconfig.in: add --falback-echo, to be used if everything else
- fails. The tests now check the behavior of $echo for very large
- strings, because some echo commands would just core dump (e.g.,
- Solaris' printf). If too large strings fail, smaller ones are
- tested.
+ fails. The tests now check the behavior of $echo for very large
+ strings, because some echo commands would just core dump (e.g.,
+ Solaris' printf). If too large strings fail, smaller ones are
+ tested.
(ltecho): arrange that, if the --fallback-echo method is selected,
echo will be defined in the libtool script so as to re-run itself,
not ltconfig
1998-11-04 Gary V. Vaughan <gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk>
* demo/configure.in: added AC_EXEEXT macro so that the tests can
- work on cywin32/mingw32 hosts. This requires the current CVS
- autoconf
+ work on cywin32/mingw32 hosts. This requires the current CVS
+ autoconf
1998-11-04 Thomas Tanner <tanner@gmx.de>
1998-11-04 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
* ltconfig.in (need_locks): if neither `-c -o' nor hard links are
- available, fallback to not so safe mechanism, by setting
+ available, fallback to not so safe mechanism, by setting
need_locks to warn
* ltmain.in (need_locks): when need_locks is set to warn, use the
lockfile to try to fail in case of incorrect concurrent builds
1998-11-03 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
* ltmain.in: correctly create libraries and programs with
- directory components in their names
+ directory components in their names
1998-11-03 Eric Estievenart <eric@via.ecp.fr>
1998-11-02 Alexandre Oliva <oliva@dcc.unicamp.br>
* ltmain.in (libobj): default value must not contain directory
- components
+ components
1998-11-02 Eric Estievenart <eric@via.ecp.fr>
1998-03-18 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltmain.in: Rearrange some of the echos to make them more
- consistent.
+ consistent.
1998-03-14 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltmain.in: Break up an echo command that causes Solaris printf
- to dump core. Apparently the Solaris people hardcoded a 2110-byte
- buffer into their printf(1). Feh. From John Judge.
+ to dump core. Apparently the Solaris people hardcoded a 2110-byte
+ buffer into their printf(1). Feh. From John Judge.
1998-03-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltconfig.in: Change the test for the PIC compiler flag so that
- we assume it doesn't work if there are any warning messages. This
- fixes a bug using old GCC's on HP-UX. Reported by Akim Demaille.
+ we assume it doesn't work if there are any warning messages. This
+ fixes a bug using old GCC's on HP-UX. Reported by Akim Demaille.
1998-03-10 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- * Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/ltconfig): Remove bogus command to create
- a file ltconfig in the build directory.
+ * Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/ltconfig): Remove bogus command to create
+ a file ltconfig in the build directory.
1998-03-09 Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
- * ltmain.in: Avoid unnecessary use of command substitution,
- replacing foo=`eval \\$echo \"$mumble\"` by eval foo=\"$mumble\".
+ * ltmain.in: Avoid unnecessary use of command substitution,
+ replacing foo=`eval \\$echo \"$mumble\"` by eval foo=\"$mumble\".
(link): Use ${1+"$@"} in wrapper scripts in order to pass
arguments safely to a program.
- * ltconfig.in: Use -fpic instead of -fPIC if $host_cpu matches
- m68*.
+ * ltconfig.in: Use -fpic instead of -fPIC if $host_cpu matches
+ m68*.
1998-03-08 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* Release 1.1.
* ltmain.in: <sigh> I like `here documents' a lot, but apparently
- they are so badly handled by old and buggy /bin/sh's, that
- replacing `cat <<EOF ... EOF' by `$echo "..."' improves libtool's
- speed by a factor of 5. So, I've eliminated here docs from the
- all-important ltmain.in. From Tom Lane.
+ they are so badly handled by old and buggy /bin/sh's, that
+ replacing `cat <<EOF ... EOF' by `$echo "..."' improves libtool's
+ speed by a factor of 5. So, I've eliminated here docs from the
+ all-important ltmain.in. From Tom Lane.
1998-03-07 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
1998-03-05 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* libtool.m4 (AM_ENABLE_SHARED, AM_ENABLE_STATIC): Add support for
- the `default' package, so that people can control unnamed
- packages.
+ the `default' package, so that people can control unnamed
+ packages.
(LD): Only add an ABI flag under IRIX 6.x, since IRIX 5.x doesn't
support them. From Alexandre Oliva.
1998-02-25 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltmain.in (compile): For consistency, honour the `-static' flag
- during compilation.
+ during compilation.
1998-02-23 Brendan Kehoe <brendan@cygnus.com>
* libtool.m4 (AM_ENABLE_SHARED, AM_ENABLE_STATIC): For
- --enable-shared, heed the value of $PACKAGE from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
- if given as the argument for the library to be built shared.
+ --enable-shared, heed the value of $PACKAGE from AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+ if given as the argument for the library to be built shared.
1998-02-20 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* libtool.m4, ltconfig.in (NM): Fix up a typo confusion between
- $ac_dir and $dir. Reported by Akim Demaille.
+ $ac_dir and $dir. Reported by Akim Demaille.
* ltmain.in (link): Don't allow both `-version-info' and
`-release'. Reported by Danny Backx.
* lineno: Remove from distribution, as it is no longer needed.
* Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/ltconfig.in, $(srcdir)/ltmain.sh):
- Rewrite these rules not to use config.status or lineno. This
- makes things simpler, and reduces dependencies, so that the
- scripts are rebuilt and installed in srcdir only when necessary.
- Reported by Stephan Kulow.
+ Rewrite these rules not to use config.status or lineno. This
+ makes things simpler, and reduces dependencies, so that the
+ scripts are rebuilt and installed in srcdir only when necessary.
+ Reported by Stephan Kulow.
1998-02-16 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* libtool.m4, ltmain.in, ltconfig.in: Correctly identify absolute
- directory names on MS-DOS. Suggested by Bob Friesenhahn.
+ directory names on MS-DOS. Suggested by Bob Friesenhahn.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.in, libtool.m4: Change a bunch of `sed N!d'
- commands to `sed Nq', for efficiency.
+ commands to `sed Nq', for efficiency.
* ltmain.in: Only egrep the first few lines of files in order to
- determine if they were libtool-generated. This prevents egrep(1)
- from taking forever to look at a 10MB binary on Solaris. From
- Stephan Kulow.
+ determine if they were libtool-generated. This prevents egrep(1)
+ from taking forever to look at a 10MB binary on Solaris. From
+ Stephan Kulow.
1998-02-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
1998-02-07 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* libtool.m4 (AM_ENABLE_SHARED, AM_ENABLE_STATIC): New macros to
- modify the `--enable-shared' and `--enable-static' defaults in the
- configure script. This works a lot better than the old
- `enable_shared' and `enable_static' variables did. Reported by
- Bob Friesenhahn.
+ modify the `--enable-shared' and `--enable-static' defaults in the
+ configure script. This works a lot better than the old
+ `enable_shared' and `enable_static' variables did. Reported by
+ Bob Friesenhahn.
1998-02-07 Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr>
* ltconfig.in: Turn on IRIX shared libraries again!
* libtool.m4 (LD): Use file(1) to discover which ABI we're using
- on IRIX, and propagate the correct linker flag. From Jim Wilson.
+ on IRIX, and propagate the correct linker flag. From Jim Wilson.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (Xsed): `arg=-n; echo "$arg" | sed ...'
- gives problems, because the `-n' is interpreted as an option to
- echo(1). So, use `echo "X$arg" | sed -e 's/^X//' ...' everywhere,
+ gives problems, because the `-n' is interpreted as an option to
+ echo(1). So, use `echo "X$arg" | sed -e 's/^X//' ...' everywhere,
via the $Xsed convenience variable. Suggested by H.J. Lu.
1998-02-02 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
be passed through on SGI. Reported by Chris Lee.
* ltmain.in (release): Prepend a hyphen to the release number, and
- fix a typo because `-version-info' takes only 3 args. From
- H.J. Lu.
+ fix a typo because `-version-info' takes only 3 args. From
+ H.J. Lu.
1998-01-25 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltconfig.in (library_names_spec): On Linux, use the
- user-specified release.
+ user-specified release.
* ltmain.in (link): Allow the user to specify a release number for
- the library using the `-release' flag. Suggested by H.J. Lu and
- Ian Lance Taylor.
+ the library using the `-release' flag. Suggested by H.J. Lu and
+ Ian Lance Taylor.
1998-01-19 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
1997-12-19 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltmain.in: Don't forget to quote the CDPATH substitution. From
- Tor Lillqvist.
+ Tor Lillqvist.
1997-12-18 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@profitpress.com>
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (CDPATH): Unset this environment variable
- so that HP-UX shells, at least, don't print out the directory name
- after a `cd' command. From Tor Lillqvist.
+ so that HP-UX shells, at least, don't print out the directory name
+ after a `cd' command. From Tor Lillqvist.
1997-12-10 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
without having to explicitly specify inter-library dependencies.
* ltconfig.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Oops... I forgot to apply the AIX 3
- restriction to the generated libtool script. Reported by Stefan
- Westerfeld.
+ restriction to the generated libtool script. Reported by Stefan
+ Westerfeld.
1997-12-05 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
F.X.J. Oberhumer.
* ltconfig.in (link_static_flag): Don't quote ${wl} on HP-UX
- because link_static_flag is never evaled. From Eric Backus.
+ because link_static_flag is never evaled. From Eric Backus.
1997-12-01 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
1997-11-29 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltconfig.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Enable this workaround for a broken
- collect2 only on AIX 3. This avoids problems on other AIX
- versions. Reported by Stefan Westerfeld.
+ collect2 only on AIX 3. This avoids problems on other AIX
+ versions. Reported by Stefan Westerfeld.
* ltmain.in, ltconfig.in (finish_eval): Variable like finish_cmds,
except it is a single command which is evaled, and not shown.
* ltconfig.in: Port to AmigaOS. From Joop van de Wege.
* ltmain.in (echo): Delete preamble to check for a working echo,
- since we just use the one included in the generated libtool.
+ since we just use the one included in the generated libtool.
* ltconfig.in (echo): Include this definition in the generated
libtool script.
handle inter-library dependencies.
* libtool.m4, ltconfig.in (NM): Only look at the first line of the
- output from NM when determining whether it supports a command line
- option. This prevents false positives on OSes which ignore
- invalid flags, like HP-UX, which prints `nm: unknown option "B"
- ignored'. Reported by Kaveh R. Ghazi.
+ output from NM when determining whether it supports a command line
+ option. This prevents false positives on OSes which ignore
+ invalid flags, like HP-UX, which prints `nm: unknown option "B"
+ ignored'. Reported by Kaveh R. Ghazi.
* ltconfig.in (finish_cmds): On Linux, update ld.so.cache by
- removing the `-n' flag from ldconfig. Suggested by Kenneth
- Albanowski.
+ removing the `-n' flag from ldconfig. Suggested by Kenneth
+ Albanowski.
* Makefile.am (maintainer-checkin, maintainer-release): New
commands to reap the full benefit of using PRCS to maintain
1997-11-23 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltmain.in (echo): For aesthetics, avoid using `$echo' when
- `echo' will do *exactly* the same thing. This prevents ugly
- `printf %s\n timestamp > some.lo' commands from appearing in the
- libtool output.
+ `echo' will do *exactly* the same thing. This prevents ugly
+ `printf %s\n timestamp > some.lo' commands from appearing in the
+ libtool output.
(link): Delete the `-allow-undefined' flag because it is now the
- default. Make `-no-undefined' in order for people to declare that
- a library is entirely self-contained. This prevents maintainers
- from accidentally creating shared libraries that won't work on
- AIX. Reported by Stefan Westerfeld and Danny Backx.
+ default. Make `-no-undefined' in order for people to declare that
+ a library is entirely self-contained. This prevents maintainers
+ from accidentally creating shared libraries that won't work on
+ AIX. Reported by Stefan Westerfeld and Danny Backx.
* ltconfig.in (echo): Use an echo variable, just as in ltmain.in,
because we need it for quoting substitutions. For most of the
1997-11-14 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltconfig.in (hardcode_libdir_flag_spec): Set to `-R' for FreeBSD
- 2.2. From Sean Kelly.
+ 2.2. From Sean Kelly.
(postuninstall_cmds, old_postuninstall_cmds): Commands to run
- after uninstall mode deletes the libraries. Suggested by Joop van
+ after uninstall mode deletes the libraries. Suggested by Joop van
de Wege.
(export_dynamic_flag_spec): On HP-UX, add the `${wl}-E'
export_dynamic_flag_spec. Reported by Matthias Hoelzer.
1997-11-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (sed_quote_subst): Oops. We forgot to
- quote backticks. Reported by Joop van de Wege.
+ quote backticks. Reported by Joop van de Wege.
1997-11-09 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
1997-11-07 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* libtool.m4 (LD): Add a more sophisticated test to determine the
- ABI flag on IRIX 6. Suggested by Lars Hecking and Ian Lance
- Taylor.
+ ABI flag on IRIX 6. Suggested by Lars Hecking and Ian Lance
+ Taylor.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Only export this
variable if we are running under AIX. Otherwise, we tickle a g++
* Change bug reporting address to <bug-libtool@gnu.org>.
* ltconfig.in (allow_undefined_flag): OSF/1 3.x also requires a
- wildcard argument to `-expect_unresolved'. From Stephan Kulow.
+ wildcard argument to `-expect_unresolved'. From Stephan Kulow.
1997-11-06 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltmain.in (link): Use libname_spec.
* ltconfig.in (pic_flag): Somehow, the HP-UX pic_flag (`+Z') was
- dropped between libtool-1.0 and now. Add it back in. Reported by
+ dropped between libtool-1.0 and now. Add it back in. Reported by
Akim Demaille.
Integrated more patches for OS/2. From Jeff Freedman.
(libname_spec): New variable for OSes that don't require their
From Dieter Baron.
* ltmain.in (mkdir): Check that the directory doesn't exist before
- we exit with error, so that we don't get races during parallel
- builds. From H.J. Lu.
+ we exit with error, so that we don't get races during parallel
+ builds. From H.J. Lu.
(fbsd_hideous_sh_bug): Apparently, some FreeBSD /bin/sh's have a
- bug that will empty base_compile unless we do this dummy
- assignment. From Marc van Kempen.
+ bug that will empty base_compile unless we do this dummy
+ assignment. From Marc van Kempen.
1997-10-22 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
Tromey and Stephan Kulow.
* ltmain.in (link): Add explicit support for compiler options that
- begin with `+'. Reported by Aubert Pierre.
+ begin with `+'. Reported by Aubert Pierre.
1997-10-20 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
Kettenis.
* ltconfig.in (global_symbol_pipe): This variable is not
- double-evaled, so it should not be double quoted. From Mark
- Kettenis.
+ double-evaled, so it should not be double quoted. From Mark
+ Kettenis.
1997-10-19 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltconfig.in (LD): Same as below.
* libtool.m4 (LD): Set LD if we discover an absolute path to GNU
- ld. This prevents breakage when `$CC -print-prog-name=ld' returns
- an absolute directory name. Reported by Ulrich Drepper.
+ ld. This prevents breakage when `$CC -print-prog-name=ld' returns
+ an absolute directory name. Reported by Ulrich Drepper.
* ltconfig.in: Port to OS/2 using EMX. From Jeff Freedman.
1997-10-18 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltconfig.in (objdir): Use the .libs directory on all systems for
- which that name is valid, and _libs on the others (like MS-DOS).
- Suggested by Juergen Erhard.
+ which that name is valid, and _libs on the others (like MS-DOS).
+ Suggested by Juergen Erhard.
1997-10-14 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.org>
* ltmain.in (link): Added a bit more inter-language support to the
- symbol file generation process.
+ symbol file generation process.
Instead of complaining about unrecognized argument suffices, pass
them to the linker. This prevents libtool from barfing on
mandatory arguments to linker flags. Reported by Michael
--silent mode behave as advertised.
* ltconfig.in (allow_undefined_flag): On OSF/1 4.x, use
- `-expect_unresolved \*'. From Christian Mondrup.
+ `-expect_unresolved \*'. From Christian Mondrup.
* ltmain.in (install): Change install mode to allow a specified
/bin/sh argument at the beginning of the install_prog. Also,
Mark Kettenis.
* demo/Makefile.am, ltmain.in, tests/hardcode.test (objdir):
- Changed objdir variable .libs to _libs. This is another MS-DOS
- portability fix. Suggested by Robert Hoehne.
+ Changed objdir variable .libs to _libs. This is another MS-DOS
+ portability fix. Suggested by Robert Hoehne.
1997-09-13 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (hardcode_minusL): Fix typo by renaming
- hardcode_minusL to hardcode_minus_L. Also add FreeBSD
- hardcode_libdir_flag_spec. From Paul Traina.
+ hardcode_minusL to hardcode_minus_L. Also add FreeBSD
+ hardcode_libdir_flag_spec. From Paul Traina.
* ltmain.in (link): Honour multiple `-rpath' flags when linking
programs. Suggested by Bengt Martensson.
Oliva.
* Makefile.am, configure.in, tests/tlibtool: Use ltmain.in instead
- of ltmain.sh.in.
+ of ltmain.sh.in.
* ltmain.in: Rename ltmain.sh.in to ltmain.in. This fixes a
portability problem (on MS-DOS, of all places!). From Robert
1997-08-27 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Make sure that compile_command and
- finalize_command are always evaled. Quote any unknown linker
- flags we need to pass through.
+ finalize_command are always evaled. Quote any unknown linker
+ flags we need to pass through.
(compile): Use quoting for flags we pass.
(echo): I hate Sun! The /usr/bin/echo on Solaris handles
backslash sequences, which makes it impossible to do backslash
quoting using echo and sed. So, we search for an echo that obeys
the `echo '\t'` = '\t' equality. Then we use `$echo' everywhere
in ltmain.sh.
- Put tabs back into the ${IFS= } sequences. Emacs untabify is
+ Put tabs back into the ${IFS= } sequences. Emacs untabify is
libtool bane.
* ltconfig.in: Quote all variable values that may contain
a libtool variable value.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Quote finalize_command before putting it in
- the wrapper script.
+ the wrapper script.
1997-08-26 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (sed_quote_subst): Change the quoting procedure
- again. I think that the new one is robust for *all* characters,
- including whitespace and metacharacters.
+ again. I think that the new one is robust for *all* characters,
+ including whitespace and metacharacters.
1997-08-25 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in: Change quoting procedure because some shells
- cannot handle `]' in scan sets. From Ian Dall.
+ cannot handle `]' in scan sets. From Ian Dall.
1997-08-22 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
execute mode.
* ltmain.sh.in (execute): New mode to automatically set
- shlibpath_var, which allows easy debugging of uninstalled
- executables and libraries. Suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.
+ shlibpath_var, which allows easy debugging of uninstalled
+ executables and libraries. Suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.
1997-08-20 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1997-08-14 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in: Accept `--quiet' and `--silent' flags to turn off
- command echoing. From Juergen A. Erhard.
+ command echoing. From Juergen A. Erhard.
(compile): Recognize the Objective C `.m' extension. From Juergen
- A. Erhard.
+ A. Erhard.
(compile): Suppress error output from the second compilation (if
- any) so that we don't get those frustrating duplicate error
- messages.
+ any) so that we don't get those frustrating duplicate error
+ messages.
1997-08-12 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in: Added messages to config.log to describe what sort
- of test we are running.
+ of test we are running.
(pic_flag): Added a sanity check for pic_flag. This should fix
- bugs reported using the cc bundled with HP-UX 10. Suggested by
- Bruno Haible and Akim Demaille.
+ bugs reported using the cc bundled with HP-UX 10. Suggested by
+ Bruno Haible and Akim Demaille.
1997-08-01 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1997-07-30 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* libtool.m4 (AM_PROG_LIBTOOL): Explicitly check enable_shared and
- enable_static rather than just enableval. This allows
- configure.in scripts to set their own defaults. Suggested by
- Tommy Reilly.
+ enable_static rather than just enableval. This allows
+ configure.in scripts to set their own defaults. Suggested by
+ Tommy Reilly.
1997-07-29 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
a message about the sortedness of the symbol table.
* ltconfig.in (nlist): Use an nlist convenience variable, so that
- code can be shared directly with ltmain.sh.in.
+ code can be shared directly with ltmain.sh.in.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (dld_preloaded_symbol_count): Count up
- the number of symbols in the dld_preloaded_symbols. Set to `-1'
- if the list wasn't both sorted and counted. This allows
- applications to do a quick binary search, if they are so inclined.
+ the number of symbols in the dld_preloaded_symbols. Set to `-1'
+ if the list wasn't both sorted and counted. This allows
+ applications to do a quick binary search, if they are so inclined.
1997-07-25 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Remove code for `-version-file', since it
- has been long-deprecated.
+ has been long-deprecated.
Disable static linking if hardcode_direct is unsupported and there
- is no working link_static_flag. This provides correct behaviour
- for all cases on AIX 3, regardless of whether collect2 is broken
- or not. Reported by Mark Kettenis.
+ is no working link_static_flag. This provides correct behaviour
+ for all cases on AIX 3, regardless of whether collect2 is broken
+ or not. Reported by Mark Kettenis.
* ltconfig.in: Fix typo in test polarity. From Mark Kettenis.
with a trivial binary.
* ltmain.sh.in, ltconfig.in (export_dynamic_flag_spec): Renamed
- from export_dynamic_flag because we eval it in ltmain.sh.
+ from export_dynamic_flag because we eval it in ltmain.sh.
* ltmain.sh.in (link_static): Don't eval link_static_flag.
* demo/dlmain.c (main): Change function prototype to be KNR
- compatible. From Kaveh R. Ghazi.
+ compatible. From Kaveh R. Ghazi.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Use no_builtin_flag. This works around
conflicting definitions of builtin functions with at least GCC.
1997-07-23 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in (pic_flag): According to the libg++ 2.7.2 configure
- script, DEC alpha CPUs are PIC-only, as well. Reported by Kevin
- Jacobs.
+ script, DEC alpha CPUs are PIC-only, as well. Reported by Kevin
+ Jacobs.
1997-07-21 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in: Replace all occurances of "sed 'X;
- Y'" with "sed -e 'X' -e 'Y'".
+ Y'" with "sed -e 'X' -e 'Y'".
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Finish full integration for `-dlopen' and
- `-dlpreopen'.
+ `-dlpreopen'.
Fix two silly typos where I used a compile_command in place of a
finalize_command, and vice versa.
1997-07-20 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in (global_symbol_pipe): Add `U' to the accepted global
- symbol types. This means that we will get duplicate symbols, but
- we'll also be sure to get all global symbols used by the program.
+ symbol types. This means that we will get duplicate symbols, but
+ we'll also be sure to get all global symbols used by the program.
* ltconfig.in (pipe_works), ltmain.sh.in (link): Sort and make
symbol output unique.
global_symbol_pipe actually works.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Revert change from Kenneth Albanowski. The
- wrapper scripts are more reliable when they just use the argv[0]
- value. Generally, when the argv[0] method doesn't work, the user
- is trying to do something weird with an uninstalled binary, and
- should try a different approach.
+ wrapper scripts are more reliable when they just use the argv[0]
+ value. Generally, when the argv[0] method doesn't work, the user
+ is trying to do something weird with an uninstalled binary, and
+ should try a different approach.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (CC): Always use `$CC' instead of
- `$cc'. This fixes a FreeBSD bug. Reported by Chuck Robey, and
- others.
+ `$cc'. This fixes a FreeBSD bug. Reported by Chuck Robey, and
+ others.
1997-07-14 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (link): In wrapper scripts, hardcode the current
- directory to prevent phony argv[0] values from screwing up our
+ directory to prevent phony argv[0] values from screwing up our
program. From Kenneth Albanowski.
1997-07-13 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* demo/dlmain.c: New file to demonstrate preloaded modules.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Add `-dlopen' flag to preload dynamic
- modules, even on static platforms. Use `$NM' and
+ modules, even on static platforms. Use `$NM' and
`$global_symbol_cmd' to extract symbols from required files.
(dlname): Delete dlname mode entirely. It is rendered obsolete
because the `.la' file format is now a public interface.
nm output.
* ltmain.sh.in: The .la file header should depend on `ltmain.sh',
- not `$PROGRAM'.
+ not `$PROGRAM'.
(link): Make sure $export_dynamic_flag is eval'ed before it is
- used.
+ used.
1997-07-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
order to help people prepare distributions of libtool for Linux.
* ltmain.sh.in: Eliminate two accidental uses of the NONE magic
- value. These were breaking libtool's behaviour when no mode is
- specified.
+ value. These were breaking libtool's behaviour when no mode is
+ specified.
1997-07-08 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* Release 1.0.
* ltconfig.in: On SunOS, append /usr/etc to the PATH before
- running ldconfig; on *BSD, append /sbin. This was done in line
- with the Linux change suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.
+ running ldconfig; on *BSD, append /sbin. This was done in line
+ with the Linux change suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.
* demo/Makefile.am (hardcode_tests): Aesthetic change to
alphabetize order of compiling the hardcode tests.
1997-07-02 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (link): In the executable wrapper, strip trailing
- colons from the shlibpath_var because some ld.so's, notably
- OpenBSD 2.0's (!), don't parse colon-terminated values correctly.
- From Tim Pierce.
+ colons from the shlibpath_var because some ld.so's, notably
+ OpenBSD 2.0's (!), don't parse colon-terminated values correctly.
+ From Tim Pierce.
1997-07-01 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1997-06-30 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in: Append /sbin to the path before running ldconfig on
- Linux. This helps superusers who haven't set their PATH
- correctly. Suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.
+ Linux. This helps superusers who haven't set their PATH
+ correctly. Suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.
1997-06-29 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in: Change all the `eval "$run ..."' sequences to
- `$run "eval ..."'.
+ `$run "eval ..."'.
Change all `$ln_s ...' sequences to use `(cd /dir && $LN_S ...)'.
This is the sequence recommended by the Autoconf manual, and
1997-06-20 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in: Redo two robustness fixes. Alexandre had the
- correct approach, but I botched them.
+ correct approach, but I botched them.
* ltconfig.in (dynamic_linker): Disable shared libraries on
- MkLinux unless GNU libc is in use. Reported by Akim Demaille.
+ MkLinux unless GNU libc is in use. Reported by Akim Demaille.
1997-06-19 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1997-06-08 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in (host_cpu, host_vendor, host_os): Patch up
- definitions, to allow for the fact that the host_os may contain
- hyphens (as in linux-gnu). From Scott Goehring.
+ definitions, to allow for the fact that the host_os may contain
+ hyphens (as in linux-gnu). From Scott Goehring.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Move the `dlname' setting closer to the top
of the file. Suggested by David Mosberger-Tang.
David Nugent.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Accept new `-allow-undefined' flag when
- building libtool libraries. This tells libtool to allow
- unresolved symbols to exist in shared libraries. Basically, this
- turns off shared libraries on AIX. Suggested by Ian Lance Taylor.
+ building libtool libraries. This tells libtool to allow
+ unresolved symbols to exist in shared libraries. Basically, this
+ turns off shared libraries on AIX. Suggested by Ian Lance Taylor.
1997-05-26 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
than the full canonical host system name.
* ltmain.sh.in (dlname): Distinguish between missing
- `-export-dynamic' and when the library is only statically linked.
+ `-export-dynamic' and when the library is only statically linked.
1997-04-21 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in (linker): Some GNU ld's don't accept `--version',
but do accept `-v'. From Jukka Honkela.
(ld_shlibs): AIX lossage may be settling down. AIX 3.2.5 ld does
- *not* hardcode direct libraries, but AIX 4.1.[45] ld does.
+ *not* hardcode direct libraries, but AIX 4.1.[45] ld does.
1997-04-07 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
hardcode variables.
* ltconfig.in (hardcode_action): Set to `relink', not `immediate',
- if we can only hardcode existing directories. Rearrange
- conditionals to make the intent clearer, otherwise this can be one
- hellish piece of code for the already-dizzy libtool maintainer.
+ if we can only hardcode existing directories. Rearrange
+ conditionals to make the intent clearer, otherwise this can be one
+ hellish piece of code for the already-dizzy libtool maintainer.
1997-04-02 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* libtool.scm: Initial Guile implementation of libtool.
* ltmain.sh.in: An unexpected inconsistency in my whole approach
- to shared libraries has proven that libtool needs to be completely
- rewritten if I'm going to give full shared library support for
- platforms that don't use the GNU C library version 2 (which to my
- knowledge currently only works on GNU Hurd and Linux/GNU systems).
- Porting the GNU C library should not be difficult, though.
+ to shared libraries has proven that libtool needs to be completely
+ rewritten if I'm going to give full shared library support for
+ platforms that don't use the GNU C library version 2 (which to my
+ knowledge currently only works on GNU Hurd and Linux/GNU systems).
+ Porting the GNU C library should not be difficult, though.
Platforms that don't have the dlopen(3) family of functions will
- need to install GNU DLD version 4 in order to build any kind of
- libraries at all. Unfortunately, DLD 4 won't be released for a
- while, because I maintain it, and I'm too busy working on libtool.
+ need to install GNU DLD version 4 in order to build any kind of
+ libraries at all. Unfortunately, DLD 4 won't be released for a
+ while, because I maintain it, and I'm too busy working on libtool.
I'll keep the old ltconfig/ltmain.sh implementation around for as
- long as I can, and continue applying bug fixes, so that I'll have
- a reasonable starting point for this new libtool implementation.
+ long as I can, and continue applying bug fixes, so that I'll have
+ a reasonable starting point for this new libtool implementation.
It looks like this implementation will be even more complex than
- the original (pre-0.7) libtool. Initial estimates show that it
- may be up to 3 times slower, and 5 times larger than libtool-0.9.
- I'll probably have to rewrite it in Guile to get reasonable
- performance, which will severely limit its portability for a
- while.
+ the original (pre-0.7) libtool. Initial estimates show that it
+ may be up to 3 times slower, and 5 times larger than libtool-0.9.
+ I'll probably have to rewrite it in Guile to get reasonable
+ performance, which will severely limit its portability for a
+ while.
That will also introduce a bootstrapping issue, since the next
- release of Guile will use libtool to build shared libraries. So,
- if users want to have shared Guile libraries, they will have to
- configure Guile with `--disable-shared', compile it, install it,
- then reconfigure Guile with `--enable-shared' and repeat.
+ release of Guile will use libtool to build shared libraries. So,
+ if users want to have shared Guile libraries, they will have to
+ configure Guile with `--disable-shared', compile it, install it,
+ then reconfigure Guile with `--enable-shared' and repeat.
I was hoping to get libtool 1.0 out the door by early April, but
- now it looks like it will take at least another year before it'll
- be usable by the public at large. April fools. libtool.scm
+ now it looks like it will take at least another year before it'll
+ be usable by the public at large. April fools. libtool.scm
doesn't exist yet, either.
* ltconfig.in (verify_host): Remove redundant `Transform *-*-linux*
libtool libs.
* ltconfig.in (hardcode_libdir_separator): Added in case the
- linker only honours the last of the -rpath flags (but it can
- contain multiple colon-separated directories), such as on OSF/1.
- Reported by Carl D. Roth.
+ linker only honours the last of the -rpath flags (but it can
+ contain multiple colon-separated directories), such as on OSF/1.
+ Reported by Carl D. Roth.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Set the dlname if -export-dynamic is given.
(install, uninstall): Handle the dlname file separately.
1997-03-25 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in: On AIX, libtool also needs to look for `B' symbols
- in nm output. These are global variable definitions.
+ in nm output. These are global variable definitions.
* ltmain.sh.in: Linking with -static should link against the
linklib if old_library is empty (like it is on AIX).
* ltconfig.in: Change the order of OS detection, so that
- linux-gnu* is detected before gnu*.
+ linux-gnu* is detected before gnu*.
* Makefile.am (libtool): Use the correct CC, RANLIB, LD, when
generating libtool. From Carl D. Roth.
1997-02-22 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (hardcode_libdir_flag_spec): Renamed
- from `hardcode_libdir_flag'.
+ from `hardcode_libdir_flag'.
(library_names_spec): Renamed from `lib_names'.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (hardcode_action): Change value from
- `rpath' to `immediate'.
+ `rpath' to `immediate'.
* replfunc.m4: Add AM_FUNC_ALLOCA, AM_FUNC_MEMCMP, and
- AM_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS.
+ AM_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS.
1997-02-18 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1997-02-10 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltconfig.in: AIX 3 and 4 ld only hardcodes LIBPATH if -L is not
- specified. This behaviour is the same with both xlc and gcc.
+ specified. This behaviour is the same with both xlc and gcc.
1997-02-07 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1997-01-24 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* Makefile.am (demo_distfiles): Add demo/acinclude.m4 to the
- distribution.
+ distribution.
1997-01-22 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
by Bruno Haible.
* ltconfig.in: IRIX ld does not hardcode direct libraries.
- Reported by Bruno Haible.
+ Reported by Bruno Haible.
1997-01-18 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Suggested by Akim Demaille.
* libtool.m4: Change ltconfig line to use $CONFIG_SHELL when it is
- specified. Reported by Bruno Haible.
+ specified. Reported by Bruno Haible.
1997-01-16 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* Makefile.am (demo_distfiles): Remove ansi2knr.1 and ansi2knr.c.
* demo/foo.c, demo/hello.c, demo/main.c: Change ANSI prototypes to
- KNR form, for better portability, and less ansi2knr hair.
+ KNR form, for better portability, and less ansi2knr hair.
* demo/configure.in: Remove AM_FUNC_PROTOTYPES.
(compile): Fix missing single quote.
* ltconfig.in (hardcode_direct): On Solaris at least, using
- DIR/libNAME.so does not hardcode DIR, so introduce a new hardcode
- variable to reflect that.
+ DIR/libNAME.so does not hardcode DIR, so introduce a new hardcode
+ variable to reflect that.
* ltmain.sh.in (link): If linking with $link_static_flag fails,
- then retry without it, but still use the .a versions of
- uninstalled libtool archives.
+ then retry without it, but still use the .a versions of
+ uninstalled libtool archives.
1997-01-15 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Christopher Olsen.
(can_build_shared): Initialize at the top of the file, so that
- shared libraries aren't built on platforms that don't support
- them.
+ shared libraries aren't built on platforms that don't support
+ them.
1997-01-11 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in, ltconfig.in, libtoolize.in, doc/libtool.texi:
- Update the copyright completion years.
+ Update the copyright completion years.
1997-01-08 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1996-12-17 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (link): Don't allow *._o and *.l_o to be valid
- object type suffixes, in spite of Automake's current ansi2knr
- implementation. Not all compilers allow non-`.o' suffixes.
+ object type suffixes, in spite of Automake's current ansi2knr
+ implementation. Not all compilers allow non-`.o' suffixes.
1996-12-16 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
1996-12-05 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (compile): Support `.S' (preprocessed assembler)
- files. Reported by Anthony Green.
+ files. Reported by Anthony Green.
* libtoolize.in: Give clearer instrutions for how to update
aclocal.m4.
* ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (link): Add support for creating
- reloadable objects.
+ reloadable objects.
1996-12-04 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* ltmain.sh.in (install): Fix passing -n flag to `libtool
- --finish'.
+ --finish'.
(compile): Compile `.lo' and `.o' objects at the same time so that
- non-PIC objects (if they are available) can be used for linking
- into programs and creating static archives. Suggested by Ulrich
+ non-PIC objects (if they are available) can be used for linking
+ into programs and creating static archives. Suggested by Ulrich
Drepper.
1996-12-03 Gordon Matzigkeit <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
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