NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool
-New in 1.2e: CVS version:
+New in 1.2e: CVS version; 1.2f: 1999-?-?, Libtool team:
+* 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
* 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
+* Improved support for FreeBSD, AIX, IRIX, OSF, SysV 4.3, HP/UX,
+ BSD/OS 4.x and NetBSD
* New -avoid-version option to avoid versioning for libraries
+* libtool module names no longer need to have a "lib" prefix
+ (requires automake 1.4).
* Various bugfixes
-
+\f
New in 1.2c: CVS version; 1.2d: 1998-12-16, 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:
+ 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 :-).
+ 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).
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ lines and broken printf programs.
* Support for DG/UX, UnixWare 7.x and FreeBSD 3.0, and improved
-support for Microsoft Windows
+ 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.
+ :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.
+ the maintenance of libtool.
* Arguments to ltconfig have been changed to allow creation of a
-libtool C program, totally unusable as of this release.
-
+ libtool C program, totally unusable as of this release.
+\f
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.
+ If you think you can do the job, send mail to bug-libtool@gnu.org.
* Bug fixes.
* Support for libtool convenience archives.
-
+\f
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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