From: Gary V. Vaughan Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 12:40:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * NEWS: merged from trunk and updated. X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e05b767f1a40edc06e40c77aef79b93fad394216;p=thirdparty%2Flibtool.git * NEWS: merged from trunk and updated. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 51d9075d3..32f8386cb 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +1999-03-09 Gary V. Vaughan + + * NEWS: merged from trunk and updated. + 1999-03-08 Gary V. Vaughan * doc/libtool.texi (old_archive_from_expsyms_cmds, diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ccd1fb64b..ccd84b12f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,41 @@ 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