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@@ -1,3 +1,62 @@ +0.5.36: + +This (pinky promise, for real now) absolutely final patch release +in the 0.5.x entails a large number of semantic fixes, several bug +fixes, and also the entirely new slibtool-ar execution mode. We +would still like to consider it a patch release since much of the +above was needed for slibtool to correctly act as a gnu libtool +drop-in replacement. As of this patch release, slibtool can be +used with virtually all packages covered by a common Gentoo world +build (as tested by @orbea, consisting of more than 900 packages +and pending some fixes of incorrect usage bugs that were exposed +by slibtool and filed with the respective upstream projects). +Then again, slibtool continues to successfully build all packages +included in a typical Midipix distro build, as well as all other +packages that we have been able to test. Due to the large number +of commits between the previous patch release and this one, only +the most significant changes are listed below. + +- ar api: new in-memory archiver backend (parse & merge). +- ar mode: new execution mode: archiver front-end. +- driver: heuristics: support argv of ar, nm, dlltool, etc. +- driver: correct precedence of heuristics-derived flag bits. +- driver: added --info mode. +- driver: corrected --config mode to be backward compatible. +- compile mode: added --tag=ASM. +- compile mode: properly handle custom compiler drivers. +- compile mode: de-duplicate header search directory arguments. +- link mode: general overhaul and refactoring of the code. +- link mode: correct object selection with -static and -shared. +- link mode: enhanced, tracebale dependency files. +- link mode: support -export-symbols and -export-symbols-regex. +- link mode: support -dlopen and -dlpreopen (self, force, libfoo). +- link mode: handle convenience libraries using correct semantics. +- link mode: cygwin & mingw support: enhanced dlltool semantics. +- link mode: darwin support: implemented additional special cases. +- execute mode: send informational output to stderr. +- execute mode: reimplemented with well-formed semantics. +- install mode: refactor, properly handle .so placeholder symlinks. +- install mode: enhanced logging of file operation errors. +- library: refactored, introduced secondary interface name-spaces. +- library: utilize the visibility attribute on non-PE targets. + +0.5.35: + +This post-last patch release in the 0.5.x series includes fixes to +bugs that were discovered since release 0.5.34. In addition, this +release introduces several new features in slibtool's driver, as +well as some minor improvements in the implementation of existing +program functionality. + +- driver: properly handle --help after --mode. +- driver: handle --version as only (repeated) argument more elegantly. +- driver: modify the cfgnmachine string for accuracy (-dumpmachine or --cchost). +- driver: added --dumpmachine support. +- driver: added -weak support, currently a no-op. +- driver: added -objectlist support. +- driver: -version-info suport: strictly verify the version info argument. +- helper: added slbt_map_input(), slbt_unmap_input(). + 0.5.34: This is the last patch release in the 0.5.x series. As of this release, |