[GNU Libtool]
GNU Libtool - The GNU Portable Library Tool
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Originally by Gordon Matzigkeit, 1996.


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Current Release Versions
  Stable Release     GNU Libtool 1.5.22     18 December 2005     Changelog  
  Daily CVS Snapshot of Stable Branch     GNU Libtool 1.5.23a     Today     Changelog  
  Development Release     GNU Libtool 1.9f     23 October 2004     Changelog  
  Daily CVS Snapshot     GNU Libtool 2.1a     Today     Changelog  

Introduction

GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.

To use libtool, add the new generic library building commands to your Makefile, Makefile.in, or Makefile.am. See the documentation for details.

Availability

The latest official stable release is available via ftp from your nearest GNU mirror. Download instructions and a list of ftp mirror sites are here.

Daily snapshots of the repository are available via http from finch.finkproject.org/~pogma/libtool/.

Anonymous CVS

The latest libtool development sources are available via anonymous CVS.

Use the following commands to check them out:

  $ export CVS_RSH=ssh
  $ cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sv.gnu.org:/sources/libtool co libtool
  

Once you have the tree checked out, you can keep it up to date by using cvs update. There are two interesting branches right now, which you can check out by using the -r <tag> switch to cvs co or cvs update:

Tag Details
HEAD The main development trunk, working towards release 2.0
branch-1-5 The 1.5 release branch. Patch releases for 1.5.x will come from here

You can browse the cvs archive live from the subversions repository with the help of viewcvs.

If you want to mirror the entire Libtool cvs repository, we provide an anonymous rsync server at rsync://cvs.sv.gnu.org/sources/libtool/. Please contact cvs-hackers@gnu.org if you do publicly mirror the repository, so that we can list your name here.

The CVS version of GNU libtool often depends on some yet to be released versions of GNU Autoconf and GNU Automake.

Before using CVS Libtool, you ought to have installed recent versions of GNU Autoconf and Automake, then run ./bootstrap in the newly-created libtool directory in order to regenerate the configure script and Makefile.in files.

Resources

Online Documentation

For more information, read the libtool documentation.

You can read about various features that we hope to include in future versions of libtool.

Mailing Lists

Libtool has four mailing lists hosted at gnu.org. These lists have moderation turned on for mails from non-subscribed addresses. If you would like to prevent the delay caused by moderation until the moderators have white-listed your address, you may consider subscribing your email address and then subsequently turning off delivery of list messages to it. Archives of these lists are stored at http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/:


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$Date: 2006/09/05 04:56:46 $ $Author: pogma $