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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: libtool-devel-1.5.6-3


The libtool-devel package contains the 1.5.6 version of libtool, a 
cross-platform tool for building libraries (shared and otherwise).  It 
enables relatively trouble-free builds of DLLs on cygwin and mingw.

Changes from 1.5-3:

o routine update to latest release version
o Includes Gerrit's "expat" fix -- but only the first part of the patch:
   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-09/msg01559.html
   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01283.html
   http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-04/msg01247.html
o Official libtool NEWS from 1.5.2, 1.5.4, 1.5.6:
   * Installs libltdl files properly in $prefix/share/libtool/libltdl.
   * libltdl correctly guesses the extension for loadable modules again.
   * lt_dlrealloc is an official part of the libltdl API.
   * --tag, --silent and --debug options are preserved and reused when
     libtool calls itself for relinking etc.
   * `-pthread' and similar options are honoured when linking shared
     libraries.
   * -no-suppress in compile mode shows compiler output for both PIC and
     non-PIC object compilation.
   * New link mode option `-precious-files-regex' to prevent accidental
     removal of files you want to keep, such as test coverage data, from
     the temporary output directory.
   * Bug fixes.
o see NOTES below, for
     NEW FEATURES, KNOWN ISSUES, and SELFTEST FAILURES

==
Chuck

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KNOWN ISSUES:
==================================================================

1) Open issue: pseudo-cross compiler setup doesn't work (e.g. setting 
CC='gcc -mno-cygwin' and expecting a mingw output doesn't work, although 
it's unclear whether it SHOULD work, even if at some point in the past 
it did.) The binary wrapper program hardcodes "/bin/sh" -- which is not 
a valid pathname for a -mno-cygwin program. It'd be best to compile the 
wrapper with plain "gcc" -- But without making a distincution between 
the buildplatform compiler and the hostplatform compiler (e.g. without 
using --build= --host=), we can't know about the need for this 
distinction. IMO, fixing the "relink .exe ad nauseum" problem is more 
important than this corner case -- and there are other ways of 
addressing this corner case, which do not involve changes to libtool.


NEW FEATURES:
==================================================================


o adds partial support for including .rc files and using windres
   to add resources to executables and libraries.  You still must
   add something like the following to your Makefile.am file:


   LTRCCOMPILE = $(LIBTOOL) --mode=compile $(RC) \
      `echo $(DEFS) $(DEFAULT_INCLUDES) $(INCLUDES) |\
          sed -e 's/-I/--include-dir /g;s/-D/--define /g'`


and then explicitly include a build rule:

   %.o : %.rc
         $(LTRCCOMPILE) -i $@ -o @^


o -export-symbols <a def file> now works properly (it's been broken
   for over two years...)


o DESIGN DECISION: (this is a a change from pre-20021111 behavior)
     libtool will refuse to create a shared library if any of its
     dependencies are available only as static archives.  DLLs may
     only depend on other DLLs (*)


(*) This is a good idea. But, we need workarounds for the standard 
runtime libs like libgcc.a, libstdc++.a, etc. These workarounds are 
implemented in this libtool release.

o correctly identifies import libraries as "shared objects", so that
   libtool's new "DLLs may only depend on other DLLs" behavior isn't
   triggered with fatal results when a target DLL's dependencies are
   satisfied by import libs.


o Skips the "DLLs may only depend on other DLLs" check when the
   dependency is one of the "standard" runtime libs which are currently
   available only in static form (libgcc.a, libstdc++.a, etc) on
   cygwin/mingw.


o Isn't "confused" by the libtool .la files supplied with cygwin's gcc,
   even though they only specify static archives  (e.g. libstdc++.la
   lists "libstdc++.a" but not "cygstdc++.dll" [which is good because
   cygstdc++.dll doesn't exist]).


o No longer records compiler builtin library paths or compiler-generated
   deplibs (like -luser32 -lgcc) in the "dependency_libs" variable in
   generated .la files.



SELFTEST FAILURES
=====================================================================

Two selftest failures (longstanding, not regressions)

build-relink2:
-------------------
I fixed one bug, but another showed up: $PATH doesn't
get set properly when running this test...This test
used to get skipped on cygwin, but no longer?

quote:
-------------------
compile mode seems okay
install mode seems okay
link mode *always* fails -- like this:
   "failed: mkdir .libs
    gcc -o hell.exe -g -O -Wl,-someflag=test foo.o"
?? *mkdir* fails??
But it works fine in compile mode---
   "passed: mkdir .libs
    gcc -c "-DVAR= test    " foo.c  -DPIC -o .libs/foo.o
    gcc -c "-DVAR= test    " foo.c -o foo.o >/dev/null 2>&1"


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