document path separator

[Ralf Wildenhues]

OK to apply to HEAD and branch-2-0? (wording may be suboptimal).


2004-11-17  Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden>

        * doc/libtool.texi (Linking static libraries): Typo.

        * doc/libtool.texi (Libltdl interface): The path separator
        is system-dependent.

Index: doc/libtool.texi
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RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/doc/libtool.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.179
diff -u -r1.179 libtool.texi
--- doc/libtool.texi    15 Nov 2004 01:03:14 -0000      1.179
+++ doc/libtool.texi    17 Nov 2004 17:10:32 -0000
@@ -1065,7 +1065,7 @@
 may get errors about symbol redefinitions.
 
 The key is remembering that a convenience library contains @sc{pic}
-objects, and can linked where a list of @sc{pic} objects makes sense;
+objects, and can be linked where a list of @sc{pic} objects makes sense;
 i.e. into a shared library.  A static convenience library contains
 address@hidden objects, so can be linked into an old static library, or
 a program.
@@ -3430,7 +3430,9 @@
 @end enumerate
 
 Each search path must be a colon-separated list of absolute directories,
-for example, @code{"/usr/lib/mypkg:/lib/foo"}.
+for example, @code{"/usr/lib/mypkg:/lib/foo"}.  On Windows, the path
+separator is a semi-colon.  The directory names may not contain the
+path separator.
 
 If the same module is loaded several times, the same handle is returned.
 If @code{lt_dlopen} fails for any reason, it returns @code{NULL}.
@@ -3487,8 +3489,8 @@
 
 @deftypefun int lt_dlsetsearchpath (const char address@hidden)
 Replace the current user-defined library search path with
address@hidden, which must be a colon-separated list of absolute
-directories.  Return 0 on success.
address@hidden, which must be a colon-separated (semi-colon on Windows) list
+of absolute directories.  Return 0 on success.
 @end deftypefun
 
 @deftypefun {const char *}lt_dlgetsearchpath (void)
@@ -3499,9 +3501,9 @@
 In some applications you may not want to load individual modules with
 known names, but rather find all of the modules in a set of
 directories and load them all during initialisation.  With this function
-you can have libltdl scan the colon delimited directory list in
address@hidden for candidates, and pass them, along with @var{data}
-to your own callback function, @var{func}.  If @var{seach_path} is
+you can have libltdl scan the colon delimited directory list (semi-colon on
+Windows) in @var{search_path} for candidates, and pass them, along with
address@hidden to your own callback function, @var{func}.  If @var{seach_path} 
is
 @samp{NULL}, then search all of the standard locations that
 @code{lt_dlopen} would examine.  This function will continue to make
 calls to @var{func} for each file that it discovers in @var{search_path}