GNU Libtool - News: libtool-2.4.7 released [stable]
libtool-2.4.7 released [stable]
Item posted by Alex Ameen <growpotkin> on Thu 17 Mar 2022 04:32:13 AM UTC.
Howdy, Libtoolers!
After a long hiatus, the Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of
libtool 2.4.7.
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:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.7.tar.gz (1.9MB)
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.7.tar.xz (996KB)
Here are the GPG detached signatures[*]:
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.7.tar.gz.sig
https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libtool/libtool-2.4.7.tar.xz.sig
Use a mirror for higher download bandwidth:
https://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:
d3f2d5399f4bf5cbd974b812ebaca28d6492ca65 libtool-2.4.7.tar.gz
BOlsJATqcMWQxUbrpCAqThJyLGQAFsErmy8c49SB6ag libtool-2.4.7.tar.gz
0c90f1b046ea9cd7b32a4b5a6a9df4b46ddb637a libtool-2.4.7.tar.xz
T38hfwV85lX/IlWa0iGg/Y74StH8X8tpkM7MMzqhY10 libtool-2.4.7.tar.xz
The SHA256 checksum is base64 encoded, instead of the
hexadecimal encoding that most checksum tools default to.
[*] Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the
.sig suffix) is intact. First, be sure to download both the .sig file
and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:
gpg --verify libtool-2.4.7.tar.gz.sig
If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,
then run this command to import it:
gpg --keyserver keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys 6EAC957F8EEB55C0
and rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.
This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:
Autoconf 2.69
Automake 1.16.3
Gnulib a5218207e5
NEWS
* Noteworthy changes in release 2.4.7 (2022-03-16) [stable]
** New features:
- Libtool script now supports (configure-time and runtime) ARFLAGS
variable, which obsoletes AR_FLAGS. This is due to naming conventions
among other *FLAGS and to be consistent with Automake's ARFLAGS.
- Gnulib testsuite is enabled and run during 'make check'.
- Support the Windows version of the Intel C Compiler (icl) in
libtool script.
- Pass '-fsanitize=*' flags for GCC and LLVM, and '-specs=*' for GCC
to linker.
- Pass '-Xassembler=*' and '-Wa,*' flag to compilers and linkers.
- The variable 'FILECMD' with default value of '/usr/bin/file' was used to
replace existing hard coded references to '/usr/bin/file'.
- Add MidnightBSD support.
** Important incompatible changes:
- Libtool changed ARFLAGS/AR_FLAGS default from 'cru' to 'cr'.
- Do not pass '-pthread' to Solaris linker.
- 'libtool' and 'libtoolize' scripts now use '#! /usr/bin/env sh' shebang.
Previously '#! /bin/sh' was used, which presents challenges for
containerized environments.
** Bug fixes:
- Fix significant slowdown of libtoolize for certain projects (regression
introduced in 2.4.3 release) caused by infinite m4 macro recursion.
- Mitigate the slowdown of libtool script (introduced in v2.4.3) caused by
increased number of calls to '$SED $sed_quote_subst' (bug#20006).
- Properly parse and export TLS symbols on AIX.
- Various bug fixes surrounding use of 'sed'.
- Darwin systems set proper "allow undefined" flag on OSX 11, and
PowerPC 10.5.
- Removed some deprecated tests related to 'Makefile.inc' files.
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