Libtool 2.2 announced [LWN.net]

From:		Daniel Qarras <dqarras-AT-yahoo.com>
To:		lwn-AT-lwn.net
Subject:		Libtool-2.2
Date:		Sun, 16 Mar 2008 11:17:21 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID:		<629494.50145.qm@web36803.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Hi!

It seems that after years of development, Libtool-2.0 was skipped and,
instead, Libtool-2.2 has been released!

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/news.html

It would be nice to see an article does this mean anything to a average
developers and are there any reasons to upgrade?

Thanks.




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Libtool 2.2 announced

Posted Mar 20, 2008 8:02 UTC (Thu) by aleXXX (subscriber, #2742) [Link]

The announcement doesn't say anything about a Changelog or new features, 
except a new and improved interface to m4.
Is there something available ?

Alex

Libtool 2.2 announced

Posted Mar 20, 2008 12:59 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Big features, hm. The new features list in NEWS is huge, so this is an arbitrary selection:

 - proper multilanguage support (no more checking for C, C++, and Fortran in *every* project)
 - libltdl works better if it's used by more than one library at once
 - 'basic' PIE support (works fine for me despite the 'basic')
 - LT_INIT turns on all the options you needed to turn on by hand with
   about fifteen separate autoconf macros (AC_*_SHARED, AC_*_STATIC,
   AC_*_FAST_INSTALL, et al)
 - a good few extra supported platforms
 - support for gfortran

There've been a simply ludicrous number of bug fixes.

Libtool 2.2 : still problems when linking with pthread

Posted Mar 20, 2008 22:02 UTC (Thu) by vdanjean (subscriber, #1552) [Link]

I tried libtool 2.1a+cvs1.2525+20071016-1 (from Debian experimental) and it still does not
allow to create a library linked to pthread with the "-pthread" compiler flag. g++ is still
invoked with -nostdlib AND -pthread so -pthread is ignored and the library is not linked to
libpthread.
(see http://bugs.debian.org/468555 for more detailed information)