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Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 11:50:57 +0000
From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: ANNOUNCE: Release 2 of DJGPP port of libtool 1.4.3
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Hello.

I'd like to announce release 2 of the DJGPP port of libtool 1.4.3. libtool is
"a generic library support script.  Libtool hides the complexity of using
shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface." (The description
was taken from libtool's README file.)

Note that DJGPP does not support dynamic linking. Consequently this package
will not be very useful to people writing DJGPP-only programs. It may be
useful to people who are trying to make a DJGPP program cross-platform,
starting from the DJGPP environment rather than, say, a Linux environment.

Binary (libt143b.zip, includes info documentation), other-formats
documentation (libt143d.zip) and source (libt143s.zip) packages are available
from Simtel.NET and its mirrors:

http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/libt143b.zip&name=libt143b.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/libt143d.zip&name=libt143d.zip
http://www.simtel.net/gnudlpage.php?product=/gnu/djgpp/v2gnu/libt143s.zip&name=libt143s.zip

If you wish to use libtool in your devlopment environment, please download the
binary distribution. If you wish to view the documentation in DVI, HTML or
PostScript formats, please download the documentation distribution. If you
wish to examine or rebuild libtool from its sources, please download the
source distribution.

Please read the DJGPP-specific readme file after installation:
gnu\libtool1.43\djgpp\readme.dos off the DJGPP directory. You can also read it
here:

http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/libtool/1.4.3/readme.dos

There may be problems using libtool 1.4.3 with autoconf later than 2.13 (e.g.:
autoconf 2.50). I have no specific examples, but I have been told that libtool
1.4.3 uses variables that were internal to autoconf < 2.50, but no longer
exist. If you see problems that could be due to this, please let me know. I
hope to release a port based on libtool CVS on sometime, which will work with
autoconf >= 2.50. (Thanks to Tim van Holder for this information.)

If you encounter any problems with this port, please feel free to contact me
by e-mail (address below). I also try to read the DJGPP newsgroup,
comp.os.msdos.djgpp, on a regular basis.

Regards,

-- 
Richard Dawe [ http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/ ]