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[ANNOUNCE] GNU Libtool 1.4
From: |
Gary V . Vaughan |
Subject: |
[ANNOUNCE] GNU Libtool 1.4 |
Date: |
Thu, 26 Apr 2001 22:28:37 +0100 |
Hello Libtoolers,
On this, the 2nd anniversary of the release of libtool-1.3, the Libtool Team
is delighted to announce Libtool version 1.4: Available now from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.4.tar.gz and shortly from
all GNU mirror sites. You will find diffs and xdeltas from libtool-1.3.5
in ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/, and diffs and xdeltas from libtool-1.3d
in ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/.
The md5sums for the new files are:
68e1cbaef7ffedfd8dd8841ead13e589 libtool-1.3.5-1.4.diff.gz
b8698da0155839e23b3f22e4429e2e4f libtool-1.3.5-1.4.tar.xdp.gz
523b7c4eafa989c21b35c95dbc4d7e16 libtool-1.3d-1.4.diff.gz
efa33bfbdeba289ee0db514506ef6c4b libtool-1.3d-1.4.tar.xdp.gz
ad40e22c9037dc0e569668c30734bc49 libtool-1.4.tar.gz
If you prefer, you can fetch the unbootstrapped sourcecode using anonymous
CVS by following the instructions ath
ttp://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/libtool.html#AnonymousCVS but using the
tag "release-1-4".
The main user visible differences from the last stable release, version 1.3.5
follow; more details are given in the NEWS file in the release tarballs.
* ltconfig is no more. Generation of libtool happens directly from
the configure file.
* Complete inter-library dependencies support. It's now possible
to link libtool libraries against other libtool libraries.
* Libtool now allows you to link shared libraries against static code.
* Libtool is able to find already-installed libtool libraries,
even if they were moved out of their installation directory.
* New -no-install flag to avoid the use of executable wrapper scripts.
* New --with-pic, -prefer-pic and -prefer-non-pic flags to control
the generation of PIC/non-PIC code.
* Support for hardcoding run-time paths (-R) into libraries.
* Support -dlopen and -dlpreopen for libraries.
* "-Xcompiler" and "-Wc," does now work in compile mode, too.
* New "-Wc,flag" and "-Xcompiler flag" flags to pass flags
directly to the compiler
* New "-Wl,flag" and "-Xlinker flag" flags to pass flags
directly to the linker
* New "-no-fast-install" flag to selectively disable fast-install mode.
* Support for installing stripped libraries using GNU strip (install -s).
Automake >= 1.5 will install stripped libraries with "make install-strip".
* Multithread safe with lt_dlmutex_register callback registration.
* New functions in libltdl:
lt_dlgetinfo, lt_dlhandle_next and lt_dlforeach provide access to module
specific data in handles.
lt_dlcaller_register, lt_dlcaller_set_data and lt_dlcaller_get_data
provide management for user storage of per module data.
lt_dlloader_next, lt_dlloader_name, lt_dlloader_find, lt_dlloader_add and
lt_dlloader_remove can be used for adding new types of module loaders.
lt_dladderror, lt_dlseterror integrate user module loaders with
lt_dlerror.
* Support recent dlltool formats.
* Start of support code for cross-compiling to win32.
* libltdl can now be built as a dll with win32.
* m4 macros needed to configure libltdl split out into ltdl.m4.
* Allow linking shared libraries against static ones
on FreeBSD, GNU/Linux, GNU Hurd and Solaris
* Support for linking DLLs on Win32
* New `clean' mode to delete uninstalled files.
* New demos and tests
* Improved support for darwin (rhapsody), mingw32, NetBSD, Compaq Tru64 V5.0
and Digital Unix V4.*.
* Initial support for ia64 linux.
* Initial support for a.out freebsd shared libs.
* Initial support for Paul Sokolovsky's pw32 POSIX over win32 layer.
* Support for aix5*.
* New port to NEWS-OS Release 6.
* Many bugfixes (especially in libltdl)
Enjoy!
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