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[libtool.git] / ChangeLog.1997

1997-12-19  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@profitpress.com>

        * ltmain.in: Don't forget to quote the CDPATH substitution.  From
        Tor Lillqvist.

1997-12-18  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@profitpress.com>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (CDPATH): Unset this environment variable
        so that HP-UX shells, at least, don't print out the directory name
        after a `cd' command.  From Tor Lillqvist.

1997-12-10  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * demo/Makefile.am (hardcode): Change a bunch of references to
        `$(LIBS)' to `-lm', since we no longer put -lm in LIBS.

        * demo/configure.in: Delete the test for libm, since it is
        standard on every system.

        * demo/Makefile.am (libhello_la_LDFLAGS): Change to include -lm,
        in accordance with new inter-library dependency code.

        * ltmain.in (dependency_libs): Added to help people link programs
        without having to explicitly specify inter-library dependencies.

        * ltconfig.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Oops... I forgot to apply the AIX 3
        restriction to the generated libtool script.  Reported by Stefan
        Westerfeld.

1997-12-05  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in (thisdir): Quote $echo in the generated libtool
        script for HP-UX.  From Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer.

        * ltmain.in (link): Recognize the `.s' suffix.  From Markus
        F.X.J. Oberhumer.

        * ltconfig.in (link_static_flag): Don't quote ${wl} on HP-UX
        because link_static_flag is never evaled.  From Eric Backus.

        * tests/suffix.test (extensions): Recognize `.s'.  From Markus
        F.X.J. Oberhumer.

1997-12-01  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * demo/Makefile.am (helldl_DEPENDENCIES): Add `libhello.la' to our
        dependencies so that parallel builds work correctly.  From Jim
        Meyering.

        * Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/ltconfig, $(srcdir)/ltmain.sh): Rewrite
        these rules so that they are parallelizable.  Reported by Jim
        Meyering.

        * ltconfig.in (ltecho): We need special handling to quote the
        `echo' variable itself.  From Alexandre Oliva.

1997-11-29  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Enable this workaround for a broken
        collect2 only on AIX 3.  This avoids problems on other AIX
        versions.  Reported by Stefan Westerfeld.

        * ltmain.in, ltconfig.in (finish_eval): Variable like finish_cmds,
        except it is a single command which is evaled, and not shown.

        * ltconfig.in: Port to AmigaOS.  From Joop van de Wege.

        * ltmain.in (echo): Delete preamble to check for a working echo,
        since we just use the one included in the generated libtool.

        * ltconfig.in (echo): Include this definition in the generated
        libtool script.

1997-11-28  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in, libtool.m4 (NM): Add /usr/ccs/bin to the PATH
        before checking.  From Kaveh R. Ghazi.
        (NM): Delete an extraneous egrep from ltconfig.

        * ltconfig.in (finish_cmds): Change back to using `ldconfig -n'.
        This makes Linux behave like other systems, which is more in line
        with what libtool needs.

1997-11-27  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltmain.in: Change a whole bunch of `progname' variables to
        `modename'.  This is for clarity, and to fix a tiny typo in finish
        mode.

        * libtool.spec (Name, Version): Ditto.

        * configure.in (AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE): Use PRCS to automatically generate
        the proper package name and version number.

        * ltconfig.in (gnu_ld_acts_native): Treat GNU ld like the native
        linker on SunOS 4.x.  Suggested by Alexandre Oliva.
        (deplibs): Change the defaults all over, since most systems cannot
        handle inter-library dependencies.

        * libtool.m4, ltconfig.in (NM): Only look at the first line of the
        output from NM when determining whether it supports a command line
        option.  This prevents false positives on OSes which ignore
        invalid flags, like HP-UX, which prints `nm: unknown option "B"
        ignored'.  Reported by Kaveh R. Ghazi.

        * ltconfig.in (finish_cmds): On Linux, update ld.so.cache by
        removing the `-n' flag from ldconfig.  Suggested by Kenneth
        Albanowski.

        * Makefile.am (maintainer-checkin, maintainer-release): New
        commands to reap the full benefit of using PRCS to maintain
        libtool version numbers.

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (global_symbol_pipe): Explicitly cast all
        addresses to __ptr_t.  This fixes a bug due to a strict IRIX
        compiler.  Suggested by Kaveh R. Ghazi.

1997-11-23  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltmain.in (echo): For aesthetics, avoid using `$echo' when
        `echo' will do *exactly* the same thing.  This prevents ugly
        `printf %s\n timestamp > some.lo' commands from appearing in the
        libtool output.
        (link): Delete the `-allow-undefined' flag because it is now the
        default.  Make `-no-undefined' in order for people to declare that
        a library is entirely self-contained.  This prevents maintainers
        from accidentally creating shared libraries that won't work on
        AIX.  Reported by Stefan Westerfeld and Danny Backx.

        * ltconfig.in (echo): Use an echo variable, just as in ltmain.in,
        because we need it for quoting substitutions.  For most of the
        script, though, use the default echo, just like Autoconf does.
        Without this patch, character \001 ends up in global_symbol_pipe.
        Reported by Lars Hecking and Jürgen Fluk.

        * ltmain.in (echo): Set default to `echo=echo'.  Ooops.  That's
        what you get for testing obscure code paths and forgetting to
        revert to the original version.  Reported by Danny Backx.

1997-11-14  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_libdir_flag_spec): Set to `-R' for FreeBSD
        2.2.  From Sean Kelly.
        (postuninstall_cmds, old_postuninstall_cmds): Commands to run
        after uninstall mode deletes the libraries.  Suggested by Joop van
        de Wege.
        (export_dynamic_flag_spec): On HP-UX, add the `${wl}-E'
        export_dynamic_flag_spec.  Reported by Matthias Hoelzer.

1997-11-11  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (sed_quote_subst): Oops.  We forgot to
        quote backticks.  Reported by Joop van de Wege.

        * tests/quote.test: Add backticks to the backslashify test.

1997-11-09  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in (symcode): On IRIX, don't extract undefined
        symbols.  When a function is inlined by G++, references to it are
        still marked as undefined in the object file.  This means that our
        symbol file causes undefined references, because there are
        actually no matching global symbols.  Reported by Paul Kendall.

1997-11-08  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in: Don't forget to redirect the COLLECT_NAMES libtool
        script fragment to the generated libtool, rather than to stdout.

1997-11-07  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * libtool.m4 (LD): Add a more sophisticated test to determine the
        ABI flag on IRIX 6.  Suggested by Lars Hecking and Ian Lance
        Taylor.

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (COLLECT_NAMES): Only export this
        variable if we are running under AIX.  Otherwise, we tickle a g++
        bug under IRIX.  From Paul Kendall.

        * Change bug reporting address to <bug-libtool@gnu.org>.

        * ltconfig.in (allow_undefined_flag): OSF/1 3.x also requires a
        wildcard argument to `-expect_unresolved'.  From Stephan Kulow.

1997-11-06  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltmain.in (link): Use libname_spec.

        * ltconfig.in (pic_flag): Somehow, the HP-UX pic_flag (`+Z') was
        dropped between libtool-1.0 and now.  Add it back in.  Reported by
        Akim Demaille.
        Integrated more patches for OS/2.  From Jeff Freedman.
        (libname_spec): New variable for OSes that don't require their
        libraries to look like `libNAME.a'.

        * ltmain.in (link): Only use global_symbol_pipe if it has been
        defined.  From Stephan Kulow.

        * ltconfig.in (global_symbol_pipe): Protect C fragment under C++
        compilers.  From Stephan Kulow.

        * Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/acinclude.m4,
        $(srcdir)/demo/acinclude.m4): Change rules to use LN_S so that
        they can be run on any system.

        * ltconfig.in (archive_cmds): For NetBSD, don't include deplibs.
        From Dieter Baron.

        * ltmain.in (mkdir): Check that the directory doesn't exist before
        we exit with error, so that we don't get races during parallel
        builds.  From H.J. Lu.
        (fbsd_hideous_sh_bug): Apparently, some FreeBSD /bin/sh's have a
        bug that will empty base_compile unless we do this dummy
        assignment.  From Marc van Kempen.

1997-10-22  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * libtool.m4 (libtool_shared, libtool_static): Fixed logic error
        to reenable override of libtool's defaults by setting
        enable_shared or enable_static in configure.in.  Reported by Tom
        Tromey and Stephan Kulow.

        * ltmain.in (link): Add explicit support for compiler options that
        begin with `+'.  Reported by Aubert Pierre.

1997-10-20  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltmain.in: Silly me.  Change a bunch of occurances of "* $dir *"
        into *" $dir "*.

        * ltconfig.in (pic_flag): PIC is the default for AIX.  From Mark
        Kettenis.  It is also the default for OSF/1.

        * demo/Makefile.am (objdir): Quote double-quotes.  From Mark
        Kettenis.

        * ltconfig.in (global_symbol_pipe): This variable is not
        double-evaled, so it should not be double quoted.  From Mark
        Kettenis.

1997-10-19  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in (LD): Same as below.

        * libtool.m4 (LD): Set LD if we discover an absolute path to GNU
        ld.  This prevents breakage when `$CC -print-prog-name=ld' returns
        an absolute directory name.  Reported by Ulrich Drepper.

        * ltconfig.in: Port to OS/2 using EMX.  From Jeff Freedman.

        * ltmain.in (link): Use old_archive_from_new_cmds.

        * ltconfig.in (old_archive_from_new_cmds): New variable to
        support DLL libraries.

        * ltmain.in (link): Only `eval' export_dynamic_flag_spec if it is
        not empty.  Reported by Stephan Kulow.

1997-10-18  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltconfig.in (objdir): Use the .libs directory on all systems for
        which that name is valid, and _libs on the others (like MS-DOS).
        Suggested by Juergen Erhard.

1997-10-14  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.org>

        * ltmain.in (link): Added a bit more inter-language support to the
        symbol file generation process.
        Instead of complaining about unrecognized argument suffices, pass
        them to the linker.  This prevents libtool from barfing on
        mandatory arguments to linker flags.  Reported by Michael
        Tiemann.

1997-10-09  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.in (link): Change the wrapper script to follow symlinks
        in order to find thisdir.  This should put the final nail in the
        coffin for problems with wrapper scripts.  From Ian Lance Taylor.

1997-10-07  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.in: Change a few `$echo' commands into `$show' to make
        --silent mode behave as advertised.

        * ltconfig.in (allow_undefined_flag): On OSF/1 4.x, use
        `-expect_unresolved \*'.  From Christian Mondrup.

        * ltmain.in (install): Change install mode to allow a specified
        /bin/sh argument at the beginning of the install_prog.  Also,
        specify the shell to run when invoking libtool recursively for
        finish mode.  From Chris Provenzano.

        * libtool.m4 (LIBTOOL): Change definition to include $(SHELL).
        From Chris Provenzano.

        * ltconfig.in: Port to UTS 4.x.  From Alistair Crooks.

        * demo/Makefile.am (hc-libflag): Add rules to make this binary for
        hardcode.test.

        * tests/hardcode.test (hardcode_libdir_flag_spec): Check the hardcoding
        properties of the flag_spec, too.

1997-09-24  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (LD): As with libtool.m4, don't override LD.
        Do a whole bunch of ac_t quoting.

1997-09-24  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>

        * libtool.m4 (AM_PROG_LD): Don't override LD in the environment.

1997-09-21  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtool.m4, ltconfig.in (NM): Arguments to the for loop must be
        whitespace separated.  This fixes a bug under FreeBSD's /bin/sh.
        From George Scott.

        * tests/defs, tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Change =inst to
        _inst to fix portability on MS-DOS.  From Robert Hoehne.

1997-09-20  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.in (deplibs): When building shared libraries, always add
        -lc to deplibs.  Reported by Andreas Jellinghaus.

1997-09-15  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (COLLECT_NAMES): If the COLLECT_NAMES
        environment variable has not been set, set it to empty.  This
        apparently fixes the AIX bug with GCC's collect2.  Reported by
        Mark Kettenis.

        * demo/Makefile.am, ltmain.in, tests/hardcode.test (objdir):
        Changed objdir variable .libs to _libs.  This is another MS-DOS
        portability fix.  Suggested by Robert Hoehne.

        * tests/hardcode.test (objdir): New variable to simplify change from
        .libs to _libs (MS-DOS portability fix).

1997-09-13  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.in (hardcode_minusL): Fix typo by renaming
        hardcode_minusL to hardcode_minus_L.  Also add FreeBSD
        hardcode_libdir_flag_spec. From Paul Traina.

        * ltmain.in (link): Honour multiple `-rpath' flags when linking
        programs.  Suggested by Bengt Martensson.
        Quote appearances of $echo in the wrapper script.  From Alexandre
        Oliva.

        * Makefile.am, configure.in, tests/tlibtool: Use ltmain.in instead
        of ltmain.sh.in.

        * ltmain.in: Rename ltmain.sh.in to ltmain.in.  This fixes a
        portability problem (on MS-DOS, of all places!).  From Robert
        Hoehne.

1997-09-11  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Do not transform libtool objects to regular
        objects if we did not build old libs.  Reported by Tomas Hiller.

1997-09-05  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * demo/Makefile.am (hell_debug_LDFLAGS): Change hell.static to
        hell.debug in order to reflect the new static linking semantics.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Add new `-all-static' flag to prevent all
        dynamic linking.  The old `-static' flag just prevents dynamic
        linking against libtool libraries.  Suggested by Bengt
        Martensson.

        * ltconfig.in (with_gnu_ld): Add a test to make sure that we are
        actually using GNU ld.  This fixes an inconsistency when running
        ltconfig without using libtool.m4.  Reported by Ulrich Drepper.
        (global_symbol_pipe): Delete symbols that are not valid C
        identifiers.  Reported by Johan Danielsson and Bengt Martensson.

        * tests/demo-exec.test, tests/demo-inst.test: Change references from
        hell.static to hell.debug.

        * tests/quote.test (echo): Add the same Digital Unix echo test fixes as
        the ones to ltmain.sh.in from Todd Kover.

        * tests/if.test, tests/test-e.test (scripts): Add ../lineno to
        the scripts we check.
        * tests/if.test: Check for accidental use of test X$something rather
        than test "X$something".

1997-09-04  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (echo): Quote all the uses of `echo' in all eval
        statements.  Reported by Bengt Martensson and Alexandre Oliva.
        (echo): Need to surround test args with double quotes, or the echo
        test fails on Digital Unix 4.0.  From Todd Kover.

1997-08-28  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (echo): Change test to one that uses printf.
        This works on AIX, which has the same problems that Solaris does,
        but no working echo program.

        * tests/quote.test (echo): Change test to version that uses printf.
        Be less strict about return results.

1997-08-27  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Make sure that compile_command and
        finalize_command are always evaled.  Quote any unknown linker
        flags we need to pass through.
        (compile): Use quoting for flags we pass.
        (echo): I hate Sun!  The /usr/bin/echo on Solaris handles
        backslash sequences, which makes it impossible to do backslash
        quoting using echo and sed.  So, we search for an echo that obeys
        the `echo '\t'` = '\t' equality.  Then we use `$echo' everywhere
        in ltmain.sh.
        Put tabs back into the ${IFS=   } sequences.  Emacs untabify is
        libtool bane.

        * ltconfig.in: Quote all variable values that may contain
        metacharacters creating the libtool script.  This provides
        complete protection, so that even single-quotes may appear inside
        a libtool variable value.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Quote finalize_command before putting it in
        the wrapper script.

        * tests/quote.test (echo): Add the test for a non-backslash-mangling
        echo.

1997-08-26  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (sed_quote_subst): Change the quoting procedure
        again.  I think that the new one is robust for *all* characters,
        including whitespace and metacharacters.

        * tests/quote.test: New torture test for libtool metacharacter quoting.

1997-08-25  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Change quoting procedure because some shells
        cannot handle `]' in scan sets.  From Ian Dall.

1997-08-22  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (execute): Added -dlopen flag handling.  Suggested
        by Alexandre Oliva.

1997-08-21  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Change executable wrapper to fix up value
        of thisdir, as well as progdir, if the $0 path doesn't work.  This
        guarantees that shlibpath_var is set correctly.  Add support for
        execute mode.

        * ltmain.sh.in (execute): New mode to automatically set
        shlibpath_var, which allows easy debugging of uninstalled
        executables and libraries.  Suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.

1997-08-20  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am ($(srcdir)/ltconfig): Use lineno.

        * configure.in: Add AM_PROG_AWK for lineno.

        * lineno: New program to automatically put line numbers in
        ltconfig.

        * libtool.m4, ltconfig.in (AM_PROG_LD): Yet Another Rewrite, which
        incorporates the results of `gcc -print-program-name=ld'.
        Suggested by Alexandre Oliva.

1997-08-14  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Accept `--quiet' and `--silent' flags to turn off
        command echoing.  From Juergen A. Erhard.

        (compile): Recognize the Objective C `.m' extension.  From Juergen
        A. Erhard.

        (compile): Suppress error output from the second compilation (if
        any) so that we don't get those frustrating duplicate error
        messages.

        * tests/suffix.test (extensions): Added Objective C extension, `.m'.

1997-08-12  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Added messages to config.log to describe what sort
        of test we are running.
        (pic_flag): Added a sanity check for pic_flag.  This should fix
        bugs reported using the cc bundled with HP-UX 10.  Suggested by
        Bruno Haible and Akim Demaille.

1997-08-01  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Add -dlopen and -dlpreopen support for
        libtool objects.  This means that dlopened modules no longer need
        to be shared libraries.

        * ltconfig.in (pic_flag): GCC on IRIX 6 always builds PIC.
        Reported by Ian Lance Taylor.

        * libtool.m4 (LD): Always add `-n32' to the linker if we are using
        GCC on IRIX 6.  Reported by Ian Lance Taylor.

1997-07-30  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtool.m4 (AM_PROG_LIBTOOL): Explicitly check enable_shared and
        enable_static rather than just enableval.  This allows
        configure.in scripts to set their own defaults.  Suggested by
        Tommy Reilly.

1997-07-29  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Add NLS environment variable handling copied from
        ltconfig.in.  Reported by Akim Demaille.
        (link): If allow_undefined_flag is not supported, then turn on old
        libraries.  Reported by Akim Demaille.

        * demo/dlmain.c (main): Use dld_preloaded_symbol_count to display
        a message about the sortedness of the symbol table.

        * ltconfig.in (nlist): Use an nlist convenience variable, so that
        code can be shared directly with ltmain.sh.in.

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (dld_preloaded_symbol_count): Count up
        the number of symbols in the dld_preloaded_symbols.  Set to `-1'
        if the list wasn't both sorted and counted.  This allows
        applications to do a quick binary search, if they are so inclined.

1997-07-25  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Remove code for `-version-file', since it
        has been long-deprecated.

        Disable static linking if hardcode_direct is unsupported and there
        is no working link_static_flag.  This provides correct behaviour
        for all cases on AIX 3, regardless of whether collect2 is broken
        or not.  Reported by Mark Kettenis.

        * ltconfig.in: Fix typo in test polarity.  From Mark Kettenis.

1997-07-24  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_direct): Set to `unsupported' if aix3 uses
        a broken collect2.  Adapted out of test results from Mark
        Kettenis.
        (link_static_flag): Make sure the link_static_flag actually works
        with a trivial binary.

        * ltmain.sh.in, ltconfig.in (export_dynamic_flag_spec): Renamed
        from export_dynamic_flag because we eval it in ltmain.sh.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link_static): Don't eval link_static_flag.

        * demo/dlmain.c (main): Change function prototype to be KNR
        compatible.  From Kaveh R. Ghazi.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Use no_builtin_flag.  This works around
        conflicting definitions of builtin functions with at least GCC.
        Reported by Kazuhiro Sasayama.

        * ltconfig.in (no_builtin_flag): New flag to turn off builtin
        functions when compiling an object file.
        (pipe_works): Use it.

        * tests/demo-exec.test (status): Use status variables so that we try to
        execute all the programs.

1997-07-23  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (pic_flag): According to the libg++ 2.7.2 configure
        script, DEC alpha CPUs are PIC-only, as well.  Reported by Kevin
        Jacobs.

1997-07-21  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in: Replace all occurances of "sed 'X;
        Y'" with "sed -e 'X' -e 'Y'".

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Finish full integration for `-dlopen' and
        `-dlpreopen'.

        Fix two silly typos where I used a compile_command in place of a
        finalize_command, and vice versa.

        Change the wrapper script to check a hardcoded path only if the
        argv[0] method fails.  This is a compromise for the previous two
        patches, and should solve the majority of problems with wrapper
        scripts.  From Kenneth Albanowski.

        (link): Change a reference to hardcode_libdir_colon_separated to
        use the new hardcode_libdir_separator variable.

        * demo/Makefile.am (helldl_LDFLAGS): Add `-export-dynamic' and
        `-dlpreopen' for building helldl.

        * demo/dlmain.c (main): Succeed, even if none of the libhello
        symbols have been preloaded.

1997-07-20  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (global_symbol_pipe): Add `U' to the accepted global
        symbol types.  This means that we will get duplicate symbols, but
        we'll also be sure to get all global symbols used by the program.

        * ltconfig.in (pipe_works), ltmain.sh.in (link): Sort and make
        symbol output unique.

1997-07-19  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (pipe_works): Check to make sure our guessed
        global_symbol_pipe actually works.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Revert change from Kenneth Albanowski.  The
        wrapper scripts are more reliable when they just use the argv[0]
        value.  Generally, when the argv[0] method doesn't work, the user
        is trying to do something weird with an uninstalled binary, and
        should try a different approach.

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (CC): Always use `$CC' instead of
        `$cc'.  This fixes a FreeBSD bug.  Reported by Chuck Robey, and
        others.

1997-07-14  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): In wrapper scripts, hardcode the current
        directory to prevent phony argv[0] values from screwing up our
        program.  From Kenneth Albanowski.

1997-07-13  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am (demo_distfiles): Add demo/dlmain.c to the
        distribution.

1997-07-12  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * demo/Makefile.am: Add helldl, made from dlmain.c, to demostrate
        `-dlopen' usage.

        * demo/dlmain.c: New file to demonstrate preloaded modules.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Add `-dlopen' flag to preload dynamic
        modules, even on static platforms.  Use `$NM' and
        `$global_symbol_cmd' to extract symbols from required files.
        (dlname): Delete dlname mode entirely.  It is rendered obsolete
        because the `.la' file format is now a public interface.

        * ltconfig.in (NM): New variable for BSD-compatible nm program.
        (global_symbol_cmd): Pipeline to extract global symbols from the
        nm output.

        * ltmain.sh.in: The .la file header should depend on `ltmain.sh',
        not `$PROGRAM'.
        (link): Make sure $export_dynamic_flag is eval'ed before it is
        used.

        * tests/demo-exec.test, tests/demo-inst.test: Check the new
        helldl program, too.

1997-07-11  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtool.spec: New Red Hat Package Manager specification file in
        order to help people prepare distributions of libtool for Linux.

        * ltmain.sh.in: Eliminate two accidental uses of the NONE magic
        value.  These were breaking libtool's behaviour when no mode is
        specified.

        * tests/nomode.test: New test to make sure there is correct behaviour
        when we don't specify a mode.

1997-07-08  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Release 1.0.

        * ltconfig.in: On SunOS, append /usr/etc to the PATH before
        running ldconfig; on *BSD, append /sbin.  This was done in line
        with the Linux change suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.

        * demo/Makefile.am (hardcode_tests): Aesthetic change to
        alphabetize order of compiling the hardcode tests.

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Delete README-automake.

        * README-automake: Remove from distribution.

1997-07-02  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): In the executable wrapper, strip trailing
        colons from the shlibpath_var because some ld.so's, notably
        OpenBSD 2.0's (!), don't parse colon-terminated values correctly.
        From Tim Pierce.

1997-07-01  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in, ltconfig.in: Eliminate uses of the NONE magic
        variable value.  Use an empty variable instead.

        * ltconfig.in (with_gcc, with_gnu_ld): Do the tests for the C
        compiler and linker if the variables are unset, or if they are not
        GNU C and ld.
        (RANLIB): Eliminate redundant `if' statement.

        * configure.in: Use AM_PROG_LD.

        * libtool.m4 (AM_PROG_LD_GNU): New macro to determine if LD is GNU
        ld.
        (AM_PROG_LD): Rename AM_PATH_PROG_LD to AM_PROG_LD.  Parameterize
        so that the user can specify `--with-gnu-ld' or `--without-gnu-ld'
        to indicate his preference.
        (AM_PROG_LIBTOOL): Use it.

1997-06-30  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Append /sbin to the path before running ldconfig on
        Linux.  This helps superusers who haven't set their PATH
        correctly.  Suggested by Kenneth Albanowski.

        * tests/if.test: New test to make sure that we haven't forgotten to
        follow an `if' statement with a `test' command.  This should avoid
        the majority of hard-to-track bugs.

1997-06-29  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Change all the `eval "$run ..."' sequences to
        `$run "eval ..."'.

        Change all `$ln_s ...' sequences to use `(cd /dir && $LN_S ...)'.
        This is the sequence recommended by the Autoconf manual, and
        should avoid any problems on older machines.  Eliminate all uses
        of `cp -p'.  Reported by Akim Demaille.

        (install): Use `test $# -gt 0' instead of `test -n "$1"'.

        * ltconfig.in (LN_S): Add test to see if `ln -s' works.

        * libtool.m4: Increment serial number, and require AC_PROG_LN_S.

1997-06-26  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Add missing `test' statement.  Reported by
        Akim Demaille.

1997-06-24  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtool.m4 (LD): Consistently use ac_cv_path_ld instead of
        am_cv_path_ld.  From Tim Pierce.

1997-06-20  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Redo two robustness fixes.  Alexandre had the
        correct approach, but I botched them.

        * ltconfig.in (dynamic_linker): Disable shared libraries on
        MkLinux unless GNU libc is in use.  Reported by Akim Demaille.

1997-06-19  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (install): Add a missing `test' command.  Reported
        by Joel Weber.
        Miscellaneous fixes to improve robustness.  From Alexandre Oliva.

        * tests/demo-conf.test (CONFIG_SITE): Set to /dev/null, so that the
        config.site file doesn't mess up our prefix.  Reported by Joel
        Weber.

        * tests/demo-inst.test: Always run both hell.static and hell.

        * tests/demo-conf.test: Always remove the local config.cache, but run
        `make distclean' only if the Makefile exists.  Otherwise, the demo
        directory is not cleaned up if a user uses their own config.cache.
        Reported by Joel Weber.

1997-06-14  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Create invalid libtool objects when partial
        linking if we don't have PIC.  From Jeff Dairiki.
        (install): Fix bug if libtool object is installed to a file name
        without directory components.  From Jeff Dairiki.

1997-06-13  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am (demo/configure): Fix up rules to run autoconf.
        (aclocal.m4): Now we depend on our own libtool.m4.

        * configure.in (AM_PATH_PROG_LD): Use it.

        * libtool.m4 (AM_PATH_PROG_LD): New macro to find the linker used
        by the C compiler.
        (AM_PROG_LIBTOOL): Use it.

        * ltmain.sh.in (install, uninstall): Support installing and
        uninstalling `.lo' files.  From Jeff Dairiki.

1997-06-11  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am (ltconfig, ltmain.sh): Only move if $(srcdir) is not
        the current directory.  Don't regenerate every time the package is
        reconfigured.  Reported by Tom Tromey.
        (MAINTAINERCLEANFILES): Added ltconfig, ltmain.sh, so that
        $(srcdir) is not messed with during a regular clean.

1997-06-10  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am (ltconfig, ltmain.sh): Be sure to move these files
        into $(srcdir) once they are created.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Disable building static libraries.
        People should use their favourite AR and RANLIB commands.
        Disable building old-style objects if `--disable-static' is
        given.  Suggested by Tom Lees and Stephan Kulow.

1997-06-08  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (host_cpu, host_vendor, host_os): Patch up
        definitions, to allow for the fact that the host_os may contain
        hyphens (as in linux-gnu).  From Scott Goehring.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Move the `dlname' setting closer to the top
        of the file.  Suggested by David Mosberger-Tang.
        Symlink the libtool archive into the `.libs' directory so that it
        can be found by programs that want to find a library's dlname by
        searching LD_LIBRARY_PATH.  Reported by David Mosberger-Tang.

1997-06-06  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Tell people to report bugs to the new libtool mailing list,
        <bug-libtool@gnu.ai.mit.edu>.

1997-06-05  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (allow_undefined_flag): New variable that implements
        `-allow-undefined'.
        (archive_cmds): Enable C++ constructors for FreeBSD 2.2.  From
        David Nugent.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Accept new `-allow-undefined' flag when
        building libtool libraries.  This tells libtool to allow
        unresolved symbols to exist in shared libraries.  Basically, this
        turns off shared libraries on AIX.  Suggested by Ian Lance Taylor.

1997-05-26  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtool.m4 (LD): On at least IRIX, many different flags need to
        be propagated to the linker if they are part of the compiler
        command line.  Reported by Anthony Green.

1997-05-10  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Trivial port to FreeBSD 3.  From David Nugent.

1997-04-25  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Remove all traces of `-whole-archive',
        `-no-whole-archive', and libtool convenience libraries.  They were
        more trouble than they're worth.  If these are ever reimplemented,
        they need more careful attention to make portable.

        * libtool.m4, ltconfig.in: Added a `--disable-static' flag to turn
        off static library creation.  From Tom Lees (who finally convinced
        me that it was the Right Thing to do).

1997-04-22  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (hardcode_runpath_var, runpath_var): Use them, if
        the linker has no -rpath flag.
        Quote the values we use to set runpath_var and shlibpath_var.
        (link): Use libobjlibs for libtool convenience libraries.

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_runpath_var, runpath_var): Add new
        variables to describe linkers that honour `LD_RUN_PATH'.
        (host_cpu, host_os): Use these more specific variables, rather
        than the full canonical host system name.

        * ltmain.sh.in (dlname): Distinguish between missing
        `-export-dynamic' and when the library is only statically linked.

1997-04-21  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Trivial port to OpenBSD by making it an alias for
        NetBSD.  From Tim Pierce.

1997-04-16  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Temporary measures to check for a broken collect2
        program.  Right now, we just see if we're using GCC on AIX 3.

        * tests/hardcode.test: AIX also has arbitrary limits on the line length
        of input to fgrep(1), so we need to translate NUL characters to
        newlines in order to properly detect embedded `.libs'.  From Bruno
        Haible.
        Also redirect stderr to /dev/null, so that AIX users don't get
        worried by `fgrep: Maximum line length of 2048 exceeded.'.

1997-04-13  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (mode): Use `egrep -e' when inferring the operation
        mode.

1997-04-12  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (linker): Some GNU ld's don't accept `--version',
        but do accept `-v'.  From Jukka Honkela.
        (ld_shlibs): AIX lossage may be settling down.  AIX 3.2.5 ld does
        *not* hardcode direct libraries, but AIX 4.1.[45] ld does.

1997-04-07  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_action): Fix silly logic error.  From
        Bruno Haible.

1997-04-05  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (install): Relink if hardcode_action is `relink',
        rather than using complex conditionals based on the other
        hardcode variables.

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_action): Set to `relink', not `immediate',
        if we can only hardcode existing directories.  Rearrange
        conditionals to make the intent clearer, otherwise this can be one
        hellish piece of code for the already-dizzy libtool maintainer.

1997-04-02  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * replfunc.m4: Delete from the distribution.  Documentation now
        describes how to set LTALLOCA and LTLIBOBJS in your own
        configure.in.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Make sure a libtool library only counts as
        a shared library if its library_names are non-null.
        Use timestamps for .lo's when PIC is turned off, rather than
        symlinking to the real object.  This helps invalid mixtures of PIC
        and non-PIC to fail.

1997-04-01  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am (EXTRA_DIST): Distribute libtool.prj.

        * Shameless plug: Changed source code management system from CVS
        to PRCS.

        * libtool.scm: Initial Guile implementation of libtool.

        * ltmain.sh.in: An unexpected inconsistency in my whole approach
        to shared libraries has proven that libtool needs to be completely
        rewritten if I'm going to give full shared library support for
        platforms that don't use the GNU C library version 2 (which to my
        knowledge currently only works on GNU Hurd and Linux/GNU systems).
        Porting the GNU C library should not be difficult, though.

        Platforms that don't have the dlopen(3) family of functions will
        need to install GNU DLD version 4 in order to build any kind of
        libraries at all.  Unfortunately, DLD 4 won't be released for a
        while, because I maintain it, and I'm too busy working on libtool.

        I'll keep the old ltconfig/ltmain.sh implementation around for as
        long as I can, and continue applying bug fixes, so that I'll have
        a reasonable starting point for this new libtool implementation.

        It looks like this implementation will be even more complex than
        the original (pre-0.7) libtool.  Initial estimates show that it
        may be up to 3 times slower, and 5 times larger than libtool-0.9.
        I'll probably have to rewrite it in Guile to get reasonable
        performance, which will severely limit its portability for a
        while.

        That will also introduce a bootstrapping issue, since the next
        release of Guile will use libtool to build shared libraries.  So,
        if users want to have shared Guile libraries, they will have to
        configure Guile with `--disable-shared', compile it, install it,
        then reconfigure Guile with `--enable-shared' and repeat.

        I was hoping to get libtool 1.0 out the door by early April, but
        now it looks like it will take at least another year before it'll
        be usable by the public at large.  April fools.  libtool.scm
        doesn't exist yet, either.

        * ltconfig.in (verify_host): Remove redundant `Transform *-*-linux*
        to *-*-linux-gnu*'.  From Bruno Haible.

        * tests/hardcode.test: AIX 3 doesn't have strings(1) so we need to do a
        funny tr and pipe the output to fgrep.  From Bruno Haible.

1997-03-31  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am: Use the new AUTOMAKE and ACLOCAL variables.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Only fail if a convenience library doesn't
        exist, and the user specified -whole-archive.
        Fix shell quoting that was breaking @OUTPUT@ substitution.

1997-03-28  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Use the hardcode_libdir_separator.
        Convenience libraries are libtool objects if we're not building
        libtool libs.

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_libdir_separator): Added in case the
        linker only honours the last of the -rpath flags (but it can
        contain multiple colon-separated directories), such as on OSF/1.
        Reported by Carl D. Roth.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Set the dlname if -export-dynamic is given.
        (install, uninstall): Handle the dlname file separately.

        * ltconfig.in (export_dynamic_flag): Added to allow programs to
        use reflexive dlopens.

        * ltmain.sh.in: Include the mode name in any help messages.
        (dlname): New mode to give the name to be used with dlopen(3).

        * ltconfig.in (AR): Allow AR to be set by the user, and export it
        to ltmain.sh.

        * ltmain.sh.in: Remove broken profiled library support.
        Added `-whole-archive' and `-no-whole-archive' to manipulate
        convenience libraries.

1997-03-27  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Allow the creation of static convenience
        libraries made of libtool objects.  Suggested by David
        Mosberger-Tang.

1997-03-25  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: On AIX, libtool also needs to look for `B' symbols
        in nm output.  These are global variable definitions.

        * ltmain.sh.in: Linking with -static should link against the
        linklib if old_library is empty (like it is on AIX).

        * ltconfig.in: Change the order of OS detection, so that
        linux-gnu* is detected before gnu*.

        * Makefile.am (libtool): Use the correct CC, RANLIB, LD, when
        generating libtool.  From Carl D. Roth.

        * configure.in: Find out the user-supplied CC, LD, RANLIB.  From
        Carl D. Roth.

1997-03-24  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Linking with -static should link against the old
        library, not linklib.

        * README-automake: Updated to point to Automake 1.1m.

1997-03-15  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * demo/main.c: Use it.

        * demo/foo.h: Declare it.

        * demo/foo.c: Added definition of `nothing' so that we have an
        global variable definition, as well as functions.

1997-03-12  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Make sure either enable_shared or enable_static is
        configured.  Reported by Tom Tromey.

        * ltmain.sh.in: Bomb out if no library types are configured.

1997-02-22  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (hardcode_libdir_flag_spec): Renamed
        from `hardcode_libdir_flag'.
        (library_names_spec): Renamed from `lib_names'.

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (hardcode_action): Change value from
        `rpath' to `immediate'.

        * replfunc.m4: Add AM_FUNC_ALLOCA, AM_FUNC_MEMCMP, and
        AM_STRUCT_ST_BLOCKS.

1997-02-18  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Transform *-*-linux* to *-*-linux-gnu* to support
        old-style config.guess scripts.

1997-02-17  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Create objdir *before* linking a program into it.

1997-02-12  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Any ld --version that returns GNU is probably a GNU
        ld.  From Marcus Daniels.

        * libtool.m4: Added AM_REPLACE_FUNCS.

1997-02-11  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Trivial port to *-*-osf4.  From Bruno Haible.

1997-02-10  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: AIX 3 and 4 ld only hardcodes LIBPATH if -L is not
        specified.  This behaviour is the same with both xlc and gcc.

1997-02-07  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * doc/platforms.texi: Yaay!  We found a workaround for HP-UX
        /bin/sh buffer overflows.  From Eric Backus.

1997-02-03  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Release 0.9.

        * PLATFORMS, doc/platforms.texi, Makefile.am, doc/Makefile.am:
        Move PLATFORMS to doc/platforms.texi.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Use hardcode_libdir_flag to get a library
        directory into the resulting binary.
        Use hardcode_action, and make many simplifying changes to have
        compilation and finalization be consistent with each other.

        * ltconfig.in: Not so amazing!  It's AIX cc that hardcodes direct
        libraries... gcc doesn't, though.
        (link_rpath_flag): Change link_rpath_flag to be
        hardcode_libdir_flag.
        (hardcode_action): New variable to simplify ltmain.sh.

        * tests/Makefile.am (TESTS): Do the full make sequence with
        --disable-shared, then without.

        * tests/demo-sttc.test: Configure the demo directory with
        --disable-shared.

1997-01-29  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in: Change to take advantage of linkers that don't
        hardcode direct libraries.

        * ltconfig.in: Amazing!  AIX 3 linker doesn't hardcode direct
        libraries, which makes it less buggy than AIX 4.  Reported by Mark
        Kettenis.

        * demo/configure.in: Check for the math library.

        * demo/foo.c (foo): Change to use the `cos' function, so that we
        need to link against another library.

        * tests/hardcode.test: Rewrite to use fgrep on output from ``strings
        -a'' if using fgrep directly on the binary files fails.  From Mark
        Kettenis.

1997-01-28  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Export the PATH variable in order to find
        the program, rather than giving a full path.  This helps give the
        program a less confusing value for argv[0].

        * tests/hardcode.test: Make sure that ../demo/libhello.la really is a
        shared library before running hardcoding tests.

1997-01-26  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Release 0.8.

1997-01-24  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * Makefile.am (demo_distfiles): Add demo/acinclude.m4 to the
        distribution.

1997-01-22  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtool.m4: For IRIX 6, ld needs -n32 if cc uses it.  Reported
        by Bruno Haible.

        * ltconfig.in: IRIX ld does not hardcode direct libraries.
        Reported by Bruno Haible.

1997-01-18  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in, ltmain.sh.in (hardcode_shlibpath_var): Allow new
        value, `unsupported', since most linkers do not allow you to use
        shlibpath_var for initial linking.

        * ltconfig.in: Lots of bug fixes from Bruno Haible.  Set wl on
        OSF/1, fix definitions of hardcode_* variables.
        (archive_cmds): Fix not to use +h on HP-UX 9.x.  Reported by Bruno
        Haible.

        * tests/demo-conf.test: Use the CONFIG_SHELL environment variable when
        running configure in the demo directory.  From Bruno Haible.

        * tests/Makefile.am (clean-local): Make distclean in the demo directory,
        so that ``make clean; env CC=cc make check'' works as one would
        expect.

        * tests/demo-make.test: Fix typo (use $make instead of make).  Reported
        by Akim Demaille.

1997-01-17  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * libtoolize.in: Handle explicit AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR settings.
        Suggested by Akim Demaille.

        * libtool.m4: Change ltconfig line to use $CONFIG_SHELL when it is
        specified.  Reported by Bruno Haible.

1997-01-16  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * demo/Makefile.am (hc-direct): Do better searching for the proper
        name to do a direct link.
        (hc-libpath): Make allowances if shlibpath_var cannot be used
        to find libraries at link time, such as on AIX.

        * Makefile.am (demo_distfiles): Remove ansi2knr.1 and ansi2knr.c.

        * demo/foo.c, demo/hello.c, demo/main.c: Change ANSI prototypes to
        KNR form, for better portability, and less ansi2knr hair.

        * demo/configure.in: Remove AM_FUNC_PROTOTYPES.

        * demo/Makefile.am: Remove ansi2knr from the AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS.

        * demo/ansi2knr.1, demo/ansi2knr.c: Removed these files.

        * ltmain.sh.in: Use 1>&2 consistently to direct errors and
        warnings to stderr.
        (compile): Fix missing single quote.

        * ltconfig.in (hardcode_direct): On Solaris at least, using
        DIR/libNAME.so does not hardcode DIR, so introduce a new hardcode
        variable to reflect that.

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): If linking with $link_static_flag fails,
        then retry without it, but still use the .a versions of
        uninstalled libtool archives.

        * tests/tlibtool: Rewrote to grab all the settings from the generated
        libtool script.

        * tests/hardcode.test: Make allowances if shlibpath_var cannot be used
        to find libraries at link time, such as on AIX.

1997-01-15  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): Eval $link_static_flag.  Reported by Bruno
        Haible.

        * PLATFORMS: Add to distribution.  Suggested by Bruno Haible.

1997-01-14  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * tests/demo-conf.test, tests/demo-inst.test, tests/demo-unst.test,
        tests/hardcode.test:
        Use $make instead of make.

        * tests/defs (make): Add definition of $make that uses the $MAKE
        environment variable, if set.  Suggested by Bruno Haible.

        * tests/demo-unst.test (leftovers): Change the find command to ignore
        files beginning with a dot, as egrep -v doesn't seem to do the
        trick.  Reported by Bruno Haible.

1997-01-13  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Add support for SCO OpenServer 5.x.  From
        Christopher Olsen.

        (can_build_shared): Initialize at the top of the file, so that
        shared libraries aren't built on platforms that don't support
        them.

        * tests/hardcode.test: Added a test to make sure that libtool's idea of
        hardcoding system linkers is correct.

1997-01-11  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in, ltconfig.in, libtoolize.in, doc/libtool.texi:
        Update the copyright completion years.

1997-01-08  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: Port to IRIX 5.3, 6.2.

1997-01-06  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltconfig.in: HP-UX 9 support is the same as HP-UX 10, so the
        port is trivial.

        * libtoolize.in: Add --dry-run option, -n for short.

1997-01-03  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (link): On at least SunOS, /bin/sh doesn't
        understand "export something=val".  From Bruno Haible.

        * tests/Makefile.am (distclean-local): Remove all files that the tests
        may have created.  Reported by Bruno Haible.

        * For all tests, discover srcdir when running from the command
        line.

        * tests/demo-unst.test: Don't fail if make uninstall doesn't delete
        files beginning with a dot, since spurious .nfsXXX files may be
        present when running NFS.  Reported by Bruno Haible.

1997-01-02  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@gnu.ai.mit.edu>

        * ltmain.sh.in (compile): Recognize valid source file suffixes for
        Fortran and C++.

        * tests/suffix.test: New test to guarantee that libtool compile
        recognizes valid source file suffices.

Continued in ChangeLog.1996