From: Alexandre Oliva Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 05:15:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * NEWS: Added Thomas Tanner and Gary V. Vaughan to the list of new X-Git-Tag: release-1-2d~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=573ca6907bd43b76cf48696310d61af6c7d7d3f2;p=thirdparty%2Flibtool.git * NEWS: Added Thomas Tanner and Gary V. Vaughan to the list of new maintainers. Detailed expected failures of libtldl+mdemo. Listed recent ports. Added full URL for the home page. Note that libtool C program is unusable. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index ca41c7cb8..f17dbbdce 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +1998-12-16 Alexandre Oliva + + * NEWS: Added Thomas Tanner and Gary V. Vaughan to the list of new + maintainers. Detailed expected failures of libtldl+mdemo. Listed + recent ports. Added full URL for the home page. Note that + libtool C program is unusable. + 1998-12-16 Bruno Haible * doc/libtool.texi (Tested platforms): broken `sed' programs diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 79d0df604..c63ed3ac5 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,13 +1,18 @@ NEWS - list of user-visible changes between releases of GNU Libtool -New in 1.2c - 1998-XX-XX: +New in 1.2c: CVS version * libtool will correctly link already-installed libraries into programs. * New -module flag, to create loadable modules. -* New libltdl, a small library for portable dynamic loading of modules. +* New libltdl, a small library for portable dlopening of modules. +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 :-). * 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). -* Initial support for portable dlopen()ing of modules (see mdemo). * New option -export-symbols to control symbol exporting when possible. * Fixed -export-dynamic problem with C++ programs in egcs 1.1. * New dlpreopen structure. @@ -17,18 +22,17 @@ 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. -* Support for *-*-dgux*, and improved support for Microsoft Windows +* Support for DG/UX, UnixWare 7.x and FreeBSD 3.0, and improved +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 -www.gnu.org for details. -* Alexandre Oliva has taken over the maintenance of libtool, but Gord -agree to keep helping us, and many other developers have kind of -joined the team. But your contributions are still necessary for -libtool to make progress. +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. * Arguments to ltconfig have been changed to allow creation of a -libtool C program. +libtool C program, totally unusable as of this release. New in 1.2b - 1998-07-01, Gordon Matzigkeit: * Libtool needs a new maintainer, since Gordon Matzigkeit has quit.