libtool @ Savannah: libtool-2.5.1 released [beta]

Libtoolers!

The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of libtool 2.5.1, a beta release.

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.

There have been 33 commits by 8 people in the 10 weeks since 2.5.0.

See the NEWS below for a brief summary.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed!

The following people contributed changes to this release:

Bruno Haible (3)

Ileana Dumitrescu (24)

Julien ÉLIE (1)

Khem Raj (1)

Peter Kokot (1)

Richard Purdie (1)

Vincent Lefevre (1)

trcrsired (1)

Ileana

[on behalf of the libtool maintainers]

Here is the GNU libtool home page:

https://gnu.org/s/libtool/

For a summary of changes and contributors, see:

https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libtool.git;a=shortlog;h=v2.5.1

or run this command from a git-cloned libtool directory:

git shortlog v2.5.0..v2.5.1

Here are the compressed sources:

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz (1.9MB)

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz (1020KB)

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https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig

https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.5.1.tar.xz.sig

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Here are the SHA1 and SHA256 checksums:

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aoPtr9QtTi69wJV5+ZzoKNX5MvFzjeAklcyMKITkMM4= libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz

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Verify the base64 SHA256 checksum with cksum -a sha256 --check

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Use a .sig file to verify that the corresponding file (without the

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and the corresponding tarball. Then, run a command like this:

gpg --verify libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig

The signature should match the fingerprint of the following key:

pub rsa4096 2021-09-23 [SC]

FA26 CA78 4BE1 8892 7F22 B99F 6570 EA01 146F 7354

uid Ileana Dumitrescu ileanadumi95@protonmail.com

uid Ileana Dumitrescu ileanadumitrescu95@gmail.com

If that command fails because you don't have the required public key,

or that public key has expired, try the following commands to retrieve

or refresh it, and then rerun the 'gpg --verify' command.

gpg --locate-external-key ileanadumi95@protonmail.com

gpg --recv-keys 6570EA01146F7354

wget -q -O- 'https://savannah.gnu.org/project/release-gpgkeys.php?group=libtool&download=1' | gpg --import -

As a last resort to find the key, you can try the official GNU

keyring:

wget -q https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-keyring.gpg

gpg --keyring gnu-keyring.gpg --verify libtool-2.5.1.tar.gz.sig

This release was bootstrapped with the following tools:

Autoconf 2.72e

Automake 1.17

Gnulib v1.0-563-gd3efdd55f3

NEWS

• Noteworthy changes in release 2.5.1 (2024-07-25) [beta]

** New features:

- Support C++17 compilers in the C++ tests.

- Add sysroot to library path for cross builds.

** Important incompatible changes:

- Autoconf 2.64 is required for libtool.m4 to use AS_VAR_APPEND.

** Bug fixes:

- Fix for uninitialized variable in libtoolize.

- Skip Fortran/C demo tests when using Clang with fsanitize to

avoid an incompatible ASan runtime.

- Updated documentation for testing.

- Fix failing test to account for program-prefix usage.

- Replaced a deprecated macro to remove warning messages in the

testsuite logs.

- Fix number of arguments for AC_CHECK_PROG call.

- Fix test failures with no-canonical-prefixes flag by checking

if the flag is supported first.

- Fix test failures with no-undefined flag by checking host OS

before appending the flag.

- Skip test when passing CXX flags through libtool to avoid test

failure on NetBSD.

- Remove texinfo warning for period in node name of pxref.

- Alter syntax in sed command to fix numerous test failures

on 64-bit windows/cygwin/mingw.

- Fix 'Wstrict-prototypes' warnings.

- Correct DLL Installation Path for mingw multilib builds.

- Fix '--preserve-dup-deps' stripping duplicates.

- Disable chained fixups for macOS, since it is not compatible with

'-undefined dynamic_lookup'.

** Changes in supported systems or compilers:

- Support additional flang-based compilers, 'flang-new' and 'ftn'.

Enjoy!

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