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! -- ___ _ ___ __ _ mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / __|__ _ _ ___ _| | / / | / /_ _ _ _ __ _| |_ __ _ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (_ / _` | '_|// / |/ /| |/ / _` | || / _` | ' \/ _` | _ \ \___\__,_|_|\_, /|___(_)___/\__,_|\_,_\__, |_||_\__,_|//_/ home page: /___/ /___/ gpg public key: http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk/key.asc _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
