Hello Stefan, * Stefan Sperling wrote on Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:13:39PM CET: > > the "Using libtool" section in the manual starts talking about > a "wrapper script" in one paragraph without explaining beforehand > what that script is. [...] > The following patch simply reverts the order of those two > paragraphs to fix this.
Thanks. Applied to HEAD and branch-1-5. The online manual will be fixed automatically when the next release appears. Cheers, Ralf 2007-11-30 Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (tiny change) * doc/libtool.texi (Linking executables): Reorder paragraphs. Index: doc/libtool.texi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/libtool/libtool/doc/libtool.texi,v retrieving revision 1.232 diff -u -r1.232 libtool.texi --- doc/libtool.texi 16 Nov 2007 07:08:33 -0000 1.232 +++ doc/libtool.texi 30 Nov 2007 04:17:56 -0000 @@ -785,18 +785,17 @@ Note that libtool added the necessary run-time path flag, as well as @option{-lm}, the library libhello.la depended upon. Nice, huh? -Since libtool created a wrapper script, you should use libtool to -install it and debug it too. However, since the program does not depend -on any uninstalled libtool library, it is probably usable even without -the wrapper script. - - @cindex wrapper scripts for programs @cindex program wrapper scripts Notice that the executable, @code{hell}, was actually created in the @[EMAIL PROTECTED] subdirectory. Then, a wrapper script was created in the current directory. +Since libtool created a wrapper script, you should use libtool to +install it and debug it too. However, since the program does not depend +on any uninstalled libtool library, it is probably usable even without +the wrapper script. + On NetBSD 1.2, libtool encodes the installation directory of @file{libhello}, by using the @samp{-R/usr/local/lib} compiler flag. Then, the wrapper script guarantees that the executable finds the _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool