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Sun May 28 02:27:38 2000Gary V. Vaughan The Libtool Team is pleased to announce patch release 1.3.5 of GNU libtool. A complete tarball for libtool-1.3.5 will be available from ftp.gnu.org and all GNU mirror sites in the next few days, along with diffs and xdeltas from release 1.3.4. In the mean time you can fetch it from here. Alternatively, this version is now available via anonymous CVS, using the tag release-1-3-5. See this section for instructions on how to retrieve libtool from anonymous CVS. The most important user-visible changes since release 1.3.4 follow (note that this release is mainly six months of accumulated bug fixes): New in 1.3.5: 2000-05-27
Enjoy! Thu Jan 20 11:40:28 2000Gary V. Vaughan Overhauled the website quite drastically:
Wed Dec 08 18:30:00 1999Gary V. Vaughan The Libtool Team is pleased to announce patch release 1.3.4 of GNU libtool. A complete tarball for libtool-1.3.4 will be available from ftp.gnu.org and all GNU mirror sites in the next few days, along with diffs and xdeltas from release 1.3.3. In the mean time you can fetch it from here. Alternatively, this version is now available via anonymous CVS, using the tag release-1-3-4. See this section for instructions on how to retrieve libtool from anonymous CVS. Note that these instructions have recently changed, since the master repository has moved back to GNU. The most important user-visible changes since release 1.3.3 follow (note that this release is mainly six months of accumulated bug fixes): New in 1.3.4: 1999-12-06
Enjoy! Fri Jul 02 18:54:36 1999Gary V. Vaughan The Libtool Team is pleased to announce patch release 1.3.3 of GNU libtool, and alpha release 1.3b. libtool-1.3.3 should be the final release from the 1.3 branch of libtool, and libtool-1.3b is the first official alpha release to include the latest development towards libtool-1.4. libtool-1.3.3 will be available from ftp.gnu.org and all GNU mirror sites in the next few days, as well as via anonymous CVS, using the tag release-1-3-3. See this section for instructions on how to retrieve libtool from anonymous cvs. Diffs and xdeltas from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3, will also be available at the same time. The release tarballs and the diffs and xdeltas are available from ftp.ffii.org until they are uploaded to the gnu machines. The most important user-visible changes since release 1.3 follow: New in 1.3.3: 1999-07-02
New in 1.3.2: 1999-05-26
New in 1.3.1: 1999-05-21
libtool-1.3b will be available for testing from here in the next few days, as well as via anonymous CVS, using the tag release-1-3b. See this section for instructions on how to retrieve libtool from anonymous cvs. Diffs and xdeltas from 1.3.3 to 1.3b, will also be available at the same time. The release tarballs and the diffs and xdeltas are available from ftp.ffii.org until they are uploaded to the gnu machines. The most important user-visible changes since release 1.3.3 follow:
Happy libtooling! Tue May 04 10:20:30 1999Gary V. Vaughan As reported in the mailing list, we have moved the development CVS repository to ffii.org. Eventually, we hope to mirror this back to gnu.org so that anoncvs access will continue to work as before. In the interim, the latest development code is available from ffii.org (press enter at the password prompt): $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.ffii.org:/var/cvs login Password: $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.ffii.org:/var/cvs co libtool Also, daily snapshots of the trunk can be downloaded from ftp.ffii.org if you can't do CVS. Thu Apr 29 18:30:07 1999Alexandre Oliva The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the long-awaited release 1.3 of GNU libtool. It should be available in ftp.gnu.org and all GNU mirror sites, as well as via anonymous CVS, using the tag release-1-3. See this section for details. Diffs and xdeltas from release 1.2 are available. The most important user-visible changes since release 1.2 follow (see below for changes since alpha release 1.2f)
User-visible changes since release 1.2f:
Mon Mar 15 16:00:05 GMT 1999Alexandre Oliva Today, in libtool's 3rd birthday (according to Gordon's ChangeLog :-), the libtool team is pleased to announce the alpha release 1.2f of GNU libtool. It is the basis for release 1.3, that will hopefully be out in a few weeks and will contain only bug-fixes. GNU libtool 1.2f is available at ftp://alpha.gnu.org. Diffs from older releases are not available because they'd account for more than 60% of the size of the distribution, although xdeltas are available because they are much smaller. Alternatively, you can get the distribution from the CVS repository, using the release-1-2f tag (see this section for instructions on how to retrieve libtool via anonymous cvs). The user-visible changes since release 1.2d follow: (from the NEWS file)
Enjoy! Tue Mar 09 13:05:35 GMT 1999Gary V. Vaughan Work on win32 support on the ild-branch continues apace, and will be merged into the trunk after 1.2f has been released. Libtool now accepts dll objects on the command line, and will generate an export list and import library on the fly to make this possible. This feature also solves the win32 problem with the import library associated with a dll using the same filename as the matching static archive. There are a few small issues which need resolving before 1.2f is
ready for release, not least of which is that
There is a new configure parameter, `--enable-fast-install' which controls whether a libtoolized package built on a machine which needs to relink installed libraries and binaries does the relink during the build. The default is to link build tree executables to load installed libraries so that no relink is necessary as these executables will run correctly when installed; if these executables are run in the build tree, they will be relinked on demand before being executed. If `--enable-fast-install=no' is used, then the executables in the build tree will be linked to load uninstalled libraries so that no on-demand relink is necessary if these executables are run from the build tree; of course some platforms (such as linux and irix) will require that the programs be relinked during install in order to pick up the installed libraries in preference to the uninstalled libraries in the build tree. Tue Feb 23 13:24:44 GMT 1999Gary V. Vaughan Selective exporting has been implemented, so that it is now
possible to limit the symbols Portable support for using Work on the full inter-library dependency support is now complete on the ild-branch of the repository, and is ready for merging onto the trunk for testing. It looks very much as though libtool-1.3 will have full ILD now! There is some contention as to how we should best build one of the two binaries required on architectures which need to link executables which use installed libraries differently than when they use equivalent uninstalled binaries (currently we know about Linux and Irix). Some of us want to link the installable objects during the actual install; some of us want to link the objects which use uninstalled libraries on demand as they are executed in the build tree... Fri Feb 05 18:40:38 GMT 1999Gary V. Vaughan A HUGE thread about the automatic use of -rpath for libtool libraries on linux dominated the list this week. Ultimately, we (the libtool maintainers) await a patch to prevent libtool from using -rpath for system directories in /etc/ld.so.cache (not a typo). The root of the problem is that most linux distributions have upgraded their system to glibc (libc.so.6) by replacing all of the libc5 dependant libraries with their glibc equivalents. This becomes a big problem when someone tries to run a binary which was compiled with -rpath on a libc5 era distribution on a new machine which has replaced to libc5 dependant libraries with new versions linked against glibc, but without amending the soname of the new versions to clue the runtime linker in on the new dependencies. RedHat got around the problem by patching ld.so to search LD_LIBRARY_PATH before -rpath. We are looking to release libtool-1.2f as a 1.3 candidate after a few oustanding issues have been resolved:
The full inter-library dependencies support we wanted to get into 1.3 just got a whole lot more complicated. We want for executables and libraries to be able to link against a mixture of installed and uninstalled (libtool and non-libtool) libraries in the build directory so that tests can be run with the correct linkage. And libtool needs to be able to relink those targets against the installed libraries at install time. The milestones are now as follows:
Somewhere along the way, or maybe after these releases, we would like to move all of ltconfig.in into libtool.m4 so that it runs as part of the configure script; and port ltmain.sh to C. The former may happen relatively soon. the latter probably won't! Fri Jan 29 16:01:53 GMT 1999Gary V. Vaughan Overhauled the web-site somewhat, and added a news page so that we can put up interesting items for people who are interested in libtool, but aren't subscribed to the mailing lists. We will try to update this on a weekly basis (or so), provided there is something interesting to say! A few tidbits to get us started:
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