GNU Libtool 1.5.23b released (alpha release).

[Ralf Wildenhues]

The Libtool Team would like to announce alpha release 1.5.23b of GNU
Libtool.

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl,
which hides the complexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries
(modules) behind a consistent, portable interface.

Here are the compressed sources:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.23b.tar.gz

Here are the xdeltas and diffs against libtool-1.5.22:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.diff.gz
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.xdelta

Here are the gpg detached signatures:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.23b.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.diff.gz.sig
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.xdelta.sig

You should download the signature named after any tarball you download,
and then verify its integrity with, for example:

  gpg --verify libtool-1.5.23b.tar.gz.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

  d396433eca05ce2da9809e2af76ce3f6  libtool-1.5.23b.tar.gz
  1bd17e86a851b1a3eca9c9e65ef26449  libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.diff.gz
  4373d6bc39dfe49b8ef0bffa4a9aa821  libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.xdelta
  390b679f3b40828449cbaac17c26433829bd51b6  libtool-1.5.23b.tar.gz
  472c285644eae38f94c0c0d27b07dc140d66f775  libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.diff.gz
  a717068e52a435872b03d4a41789d98e6ac31bb6  libtool-1.5.22-1.5.23b.xdelta

This prerelease should help shake out any remaining bugs for 1.5.24.
Ideally, the releases will be identical, so please test it on your
systems and with your software packages as much as you can.  This
release fixes a couple of regressions on BSD systems, improves multilib
support, and treats Cygwin more like MinGW; see the NEWS excerpt below.

We intend for 1.5.24 to be the last release of the 1.5.x series.

This release was bootstrapped with Autoconf 2.61 and Automake 1.10,
but is useable with Autoconf 2.50 & later and Automake 1.4 & later
in your own projects.

Alternatively, you can fetch the unbootstrapped source code from
anonymous cvs by using the following command:

  $ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:address@hidden:/sources/libtool \
    co -r release-1-5-23b libtool

You will then need to have recent versions of Automake and Autoconf
installed to bootstrap the checked out sources yourself.

New in 1.5.23b: 2007-02-17

* Initial support for RDOS.
* Fix regression on DragonFly that disabled library hardcoding.
* Fix regression on OpenBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly, and other systems
  with hardcode_direct=yes that wrongly removed paths to uninstalled
  libraries during link mode.
* Let libltdl know that FreeBSD and DragonFly dlopen causes dependent
  modules to be loaded.  This fixes excessive load times for modules
  with large library dependency graphs.
* Fix error with -version-info on systems with version_type=none, such
  as BeOS.
* Initial support for the Sun compiler suite on GNU/Linux.
* Improved support for GNU/kFreeBSD and GNU/NetBSD.
* Search paths with GCC on multilib systems like x86_64 have been fixed.
* The libtool --tag argument which has been supported since version 1.5
  is documented now.
* Fix regression in libltdl symbol exports on Cygwin. Side effect:
  LT_GLOBAL_DATA and LT_SCOPE are now explicitly defined as
  declspec(dllexport), bypassing auto-export logic on Cygwin.
  This tracks existing behavior on MinGW.
* Bug Fixes.

Please report bugs to <address@hidden>, along with the verbose
output of any failed test groups, and the output from `./libtool --config.'
The README file explains how to capture the verbose test output.