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Re: [PATCH] small fix for the libtool manual


From: Ralf Wildenhues
Subject: Re: [PATCH] small fix for the libtool manual
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 05:19:24 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11)

Hello Stefan,

* Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:13:39PM CET:
> 
> the "Using libtool" section in the manual starts talking about
> a "wrapper script" in one paragraph without explaining beforehand
> what that script is.
[...]
> The following patch simply reverts the order of those two
> paragraphs to fix this.

Thanks.  Applied to HEAD and branch-1-5.  The online manual will be
fixed automatically when the next release appears.

Cheers,
Ralf

2007-11-30  Stefan Sperling  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)

        * doc/libtool.texi (Linking executables): Reorder paragraphs.

Index: doc/libtool.texi
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/doc/libtool.texi,v
retrieving revision 1.232
diff -u -r1.232 libtool.texi
--- doc/libtool.texi    16 Nov 2007 07:08:33 -0000      1.232
+++ doc/libtool.texi    30 Nov 2007 04:17:56 -0000
@@ -785,18 +785,17 @@
 Note that libtool added the necessary run-time path flag, as well as
 @option{-lm}, the library libhello.la depended upon.  Nice, huh?
 
-Since libtool created a wrapper script, you should use libtool to
-install it and debug it too.  However, since the program does not depend
-on any uninstalled libtool library, it is probably usable even without
-the wrapper script.
-
-
 @cindex wrapper scripts for programs
 @cindex program wrapper scripts
 Notice that the executable, @code{hell}, was actually created in the
 @address@hidden subdirectory.  Then, a wrapper script was created
 in the current directory.
 
+Since libtool created a wrapper script, you should use libtool to
+install it and debug it too.  However, since the program does not depend
+on any uninstalled libtool library, it is probably usable even without
+the wrapper script.
+
 On NetBSD 1.2, libtool encodes the installation directory of
 @file{libhello}, by using the @samp{-R/usr/local/lib} compiler flag.
 Then, the wrapper script guarantees that the executable finds the




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