From: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 14:23:18 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * NEWS: Explain more fully why we no longer load libraries
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* 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 89b5b511c..1b5a0cb71 100644
--- 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 0d7c25a45..0279f54e0 100644
--- 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 6ea909b0a..2a44c1f39 100644
--- 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