* NEWS: merged from trunk and updated.

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+1999-03-09  Gary V. Vaughan  <gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk>
+
+       * NEWS: merged from trunk and updated.
+
 1999-03-08  Gary V. Vaughan  <gvaughan@oranda.demon.co.uk>
 
        * doc/libtool.texi (old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds,

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 NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool
 
-New in 1.2e: CVS version:
+New in 1.2g: CVS version
+* Support for linking dll objects specified on the link line.
+
+New in 1.2e: CVS version; 1.2f: 1999-?-?, Libtool team:
+* 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.
+* Improved support for DJGPP envionment.
+* Wrapper scripts now work on win32.
+* libtool will correctly link uninstalled libraries into programs
+  and prefer uninstalled libraries to installed ones
+* Library paths that are in the system search path are no longer hardcoded.
+* 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 disable the fast-install mode
+* New -export-symbols-regex flag, to export symbols selectively by
+  a regular expression
+* 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
+* If libtool could not satisfy all dependencies of a module
+  it will only build a static version of it
+* New "-dlopen self" flag for dlopening the executable itself
+* dld_preloaded_symbols was renamed to lt_preloaded_symbols
+* New AC_LIBTOOL_DLOPEN macro to check for dlopen support,
+  required if you use -dlopen or -dlpreopen
+* New -thread-safe flag, to build thread-safe libraries
+* New demos and tests
+* Improved shared library checking
+* Libtool will now accept *.dll objects on the command line, and generate
+  an import library on the fly so that it will be linked correctly.
 * Support -R for specifying run-time path of programs and library dependencies
 * Support for BeOS
 * Improved support for aix3, aix4, SysV 4.3, BSD/OS 4.x and NetBSD