From: Gary V. Vaughan <gary@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:51:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * doc/libtool.texi (Invoking libtool): Updated.
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* doc/libtool.texi (Invoking libtool): Updated.
* ltmain.in: Add missing clean and finish modes to the shorthand
options.
---

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 010182d27..894ceb6ef 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 2003-10-07  Gary V. Vaughan  <gary@gnu.org>
 
+	* doc/libtool.texi (Invoking libtool): Updated.
+	* ltmain.in: Add missing clean and finish modes to the shorthand
+	options.
+
 	* ltmain.in: Typo in the --mode shorthand.
 
 2003-10-07  Scott James Remnant  <scott@netsplit.com>
diff --git a/doc/libtool.texi b/doc/libtool.texi
index ee7308714..f0aa0d328 100644
--- a/doc/libtool.texi
+++ b/doc/libtool.texi
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 @ifnottex
 This file documents GNU Libtool @value{VERSION}
 
-Copyright (C) 1996-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ identical to this one except for the removal of this paragraph
 
 @page
 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996-2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996-2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
 under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.1
@@ -1081,11 +1081,10 @@ specified, then detailed help for @var{mode} is
 displayed.
 
 @item --mode=@var{mode}
-Use @var{mode} as the operation mode.  If not specified, an attempt is
-made to inferr the operation mode from the @var{mode-args}.  Not specifying
-the @var{mode} is currently deprecated, as there are too many situations
-where it is not possible to guess.  Future versions of Libtool will require
-that @var{mode} be explicity set.
+Use @var{mode} as the operation mode.  When using libtool from the
+command line, you can give just @var{mode} (or a unique abbreviation
+of it) as the first argument as a shorthand for the full
+@samp{--mode=@var{mode}}.
 
 @var{mode} must be set to one of the following:
 
diff --git a/ltmain.in b/ltmain.in
index 1d2851d9c..c2d1a2191 100644
--- a/ltmain.in
+++ b/ltmain.in
@@ -160,12 +160,18 @@ win32_libid () {
 
 # Shorthand for --mode=foo
 case $1 in
+clean|clea|cle|cl)
+  shift; set -- --mode=clean ${1+"$@"}
+  ;;
 compile|compil|compi|comp|com|co|c)
   shift; set -- --mode=compile ${1+"$@"}
   ;;
 execute|execut|execu|exec|exe|ex|e)
   shift; set -- --mode=execute ${1+"$@"}
   ;;
+finish|finis|fini|fin|fi|f)
+  shift; set -- --mode=finish ${1+"$@"}
+  ;;
 install|instal|insta|inst|ins|in|i)
   shift; set -- --mode=install ${1+"$@"}
   ;;