[SCM] GNU Libtool annotated tag, v2.4, created. v2.4

[Gary V. Vaughan]

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The annotated tag, v2.4 has been created
        at  fd9f12048e1fd25f5bd3617135abe7fba2f47705 (tag)
   tagging  e9170e0daf1880db04269434ab0ef8872b9cb4f7 (commit)
  replaces  v2.2.10
 tagged by  Gary V. Vaughan
        on  Wed Sep 22 23:26:12 2010 +0700

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release 2.4
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Charles Wilson (18):
      [cygwin] Fix segfault in C++ exception handling test
      [cygwin] Refactor C++ exception handling for Win32 correctness
      Avoid false failures caused by filesystem interaction
      [cygwin|mingw] fix dlpreopen with --disable-static
      Don't always skip XSI tests
      fix --mode=finish
      Fix syntax for cygwin-cross
      [cygwin|mingw|cross-compile]: Path conversion support.
      Merge remote branch 'origin/master'
      Minor sysroot fixups.
      Merge branch 'sysroot'
      Update path conversion warning messages
      Path conversion documentation
      Correct typo: $sharedlib_from_linklib_cmd missing '_cmd'
      When assigning $linklib value, honor [-all]-static[-libtool-libs]
      Fix sh.test failure introduced in 72064249
      Document libtool variable to_host_file_cmd.
      Fix order of PATH manipulation in cwrapper and shwrapper

Dave Korn (1):
      Ensure cwrapper magic string is not optimized away.

Eric Blake (4):
      Simplify recent configure quoting portability workaround.
      maint: ship .xz, not .lzma
      build: ship autobuild.m4, to reduce bootstrap requirement
      maint: drop autobuild requirement

Gary V. Vaughan (36):
      Set SCM version number to 2.2.11a.
      Fix a typu in HACKING.
      Support shell tracing inside functions even with ksh.
      Use getopt.m4sh to generate libtoolize option parser.
      Ensure getopts.m4sh is compatible with Autoconf-2.61 and newer.
      getopt.m4sh generated libtool option parser, and XSI improvements.
      Fix portability regressions in today's earlier changeset.
      Amend a missed opt_mode rename instance in ltmain.m4sh.
      Use TAB-SPACE in preference to SPACE-TAB.
      Add missing case branch terminators.
      Add an XSI replacement for func_split_short_opt, with test cases.
      Add func_append_quoted and do inline func_append substitutions.
      Use a real XSI compliant func_split_short_opt substitution.
      Correct func_split_short_opt comment cut-n-pasto.
      Add func_append test cases for smart and retarded implementations.
      Skip `enhanced shell option appending' test when not available.
      Tidy m4 comment header underline.
      Fix a cut-n-pasto in "2010-07-07 Charles Wilson" patch.
      Rename _LT_PROG_XSI_REPLACE macro to _LT_PROG_FUNCTION_REPLACE.
      Fix a spurious trailing space and a botched merge.
      Make testsuite compatible with Autoconf 2.62 again.
      Remove double `Generated from foo.m4sh' lines.
      Remove clcommit.m4sh.
      Remove announce-gen.m4sh and mailnotify.m4sh.
      Remove obsolete .cvs ignore files.
      maint: improve README instructions for fetching latest version.
      maint: copy the Version Numbering section into README.alpha.
      maint: consolidate Introductions of README and README.alpha.
      maint: improve `Reporting Bugs' in README and README.alpha.
      maint: reformat README `The Test Suites' for consistency.
      maint: improve README's `Obtaining the Latest Sources'.
      maint: use sed instead of maintaining 2 README files.
      maint: edit-readme-alpha shouldn't try to re-edit during dist.
      tests: ISO C++ forbids declaration of 'v1' with no type.
      manual: web-manual index.html clashes with @node Index.
      Release 2.4.

Jürgen Reuter (1):
      Initial support for the NAG Fortran compiler on GNU/Linux.

Paolo Bonzini (18):
      fix bug in postdeps computation
      handle sysroot flags
      add --with-sysroot
      teach libtool -L= and -R=
      handle sysrooted paths when reading dependencies to la files
      process postdeps to include sysrooted paths
      emit sysrooted paths when installing .la files
      add sysroot test
      initial version of the NEWS entry
      fix sysroot tests to pass on Fedora 13
      fix sysroot handling for deplibs of preopened libtool libs
      reorganize parsing of --mode=finish arguments
      add libtool --mode=finish mode for sysroot
      improve code for sysroot --mode=finish
      Factor the sed command used to make a regex from a literal.
      Merge remote branch 'origin/master' into sysroot
      Fix sed_make_literal_regex.
      Merge branch 'master' into sysroot

Peter O'Gorman (7):
      Skip demo-nopic tests if SELinux policy will cause failure.
      Create reloadable object files with non-pic objects too.
      Skip bindir install test if we're not building shared.
      Use LTDL_SET_PRELOADED_SYMBOLS to avoid failure.
      Avoid failure for --disable-shared.
      Test with --disable-shared at release time too.
      Pass resident test with --disable-shared too.

Peter Rosin (40):
      Improve libdir usage from within ltdl on MinGW.
      On Windows, find potential libs regardless of file name case.
      Add MSVC support.
      For MSVC, embed the manifest as a resource in the executable.
      Fix regression caused by "Add func_append_quoted and do..."
      Don't trigger file name expansion when embedding manifests.
      Fix typo in "Add func_append_quoted and do..."
      Support for response files with $NM.
      * tests/export.at [MSVC]: dllimport all imported variables.
      Optimize assignment of output_la.
      Make preloading heed libname_spec.
      dllimport the variable for MSVC in link-order.at
      dllimport variables for MSVC in stresstest.at
      dllimport when the lib is shared and not linking with -static
      Allow the use of a listing file if the archiver supports it.
      Fix typo when renaming path conversion functions.
      Extract the archive name from the .la file and use $AR (not ar).
      Silence archiver output when testing @file support.
      Dump archiver output to the log when testing @file support.
      archive-in-archive.at passes with Microsoft lib.
      Add file name conversion from $build to toolchain.
      Convert file names to toolchain format when linking.
      Convert file names to toolchain format in $NM and $AR @files.
      Use func_to_tool_file instead of fix_srcfile_path.
      Convert POSIX file names to toolchain format for MSVC
      Fixup texi typo in previous.
      Adjust naming of MSVC import libraries.
      Mention adjustment of naming of MSVC import libraries in NEWS.
      Fix dependency tracking for MSYS/MinGW.
      Convert file name to toolchain format when invoking $NM.
      Adjust to moved auxiliary files and add compile.
      * .gitignore: Ignore *.obj files for MSVC (and w32 in general).
      Prefer $NM @file when the toolchain isn't native to $build.
      Copy over DLL_EXPORT handling from C to C++ for non-GCC on w32.
      tests: actually detect missing 'test' in 'if "$foo" = ...'.
      tests: Import items from liba1 for MSVC.
      tests: __declspec (dll{ex,im}port) in tests/exceptions.at
      libltdl: Make sure preloaded symbols are declared extern "C".
      msvc: eliminate spaces in the library search path.
      tests: reloadable objects do not work on MSVC, SKIP test.

Philip Allison (1):
      Avoid GCC -Wall compiler warning in dlopen self test.

Rainer Tammer (1):
      Avoid issues with AIX resident shared libraries in old testsuite.

Ralf Wildenhues (84):
      Factorize testing gcj installation in the testsuite.
      Ensure libltdl is up to date for check-local.
      Print Libtool project URL in program --help output.
      Enable colored Autotest testsuite output if available.
      Fix cleaning of uninstalled w32 shell wrapper in subdirs.
      Fix bootstrap script to cope with changed AC_INIT arguments.
      Optimize func_ltwrapper_scriptname to assume a cwrapper.
      Use config.cache variable for PIC flag, to allow override.
      Fix execute mode test for OSF/1 5.1.
      Fixup botched ChangeLog entry, fix name added to THANKS.
      Let the bootstrap script fail upon errors.
      Clean up @var handling in the manual.
      Fix srcdir computation for manual runs of old tests.
      Fix flags test failure when ld is used as linker.
      Add comment for exception handling module unloading issue.
      Fix clean mode for HP-UX 11.31 sh.
      Fix ccache test for MSVC.
      Fix pic_flag test unportabilities.
      Fix build failure with AIX sh due to shell quoting error.
      Fix testsuite errors due to shell quoted parameter expansion issue.
      Avoid syntax error due to shift of nonexistent parameter.
      Let `libtool' without arguments point to `--help' again.
      Fix ltdl-libdir test for C++ compilers.
      Fix AC_NO_EXECUTABLES test failure on AIX.
      Ensure not to reverse preserving of --debug for relinking/finish.
      Allow running pic_flag test with different shell.
      Do not call toplevel configure in non-VPATH build.
      Fix compilation of program sources on AIX.
      Avoid unwanted error message in configure output.
      Fix another typo on "Add func_append_quoted and do..."
      Fix more problematic code from "Add func_append_quoted and do..."
      Bump copyright years in manual.
      Remove superfluous dependency in Makefile.am.
      Don't hide the table of contents in the manual.
      Remove dead code from versioning test.
      Skip part of versioning test on AIX.
      Require Automake 1.11.1 for Libtool, enable color-tests.
      New alias scripts for old tests run more than once.
      Enable parallel-tests test driver for the old testsuite.
      Update VERBOSE handling for parallel-tests driver.
      fix AIX testsuite regression
      Tidy and fix clean and distclean rules for old testsuite.
      Adjust docs for renaming and for parallel-tests.
      check-interactive and check-noninteractive for both testsuites.
      Fix getopt tests to skip with Autoconf < 2.61.
      configure: use Autobuild AB_INIT if available.
      Merge branch 'parallel-tests'
      Add ChangeLog entries for the sysroot branch.
      Fix NEWS entry for bootstrapping requirements.
      Merge branch 'parallel-tests'
      Merge branch 'sysroot'
      Fix AC_LANG_PROGRAM warnings from git Autoconf.
      Fix response file test for unreliable exit status of IRIX ar.
      Fix quoting in non-XSI func_xform, for IRIX sh.
      Uniform const'ness of symlist variable lt_preloaded_symbols.
      Add $pic_flag to archive_cmds and archive_expsym_cmds.
      Fix symlist variable path to use _WIN32 instead of __WINDOWS__.
      Silence order-only configure test for AIX make.
      Merge branch 'parallel-tests'
      Work around yet another shell quoting portability issue.
      Save and restore CFLAGS properly inside libtool.m4 macros.
      Disable GCC LTO for verbose library extraction.
      Support GCC LTO on GNU/Linux.
      tests: mark 'syntax of .la files' as XFAIL, expose failure.
      tests: avoid getopt-m4sh failures when autom4te is not available.
      tests: skip -Wall -Werror with Tru64 cc in cwrapper test.
      Avoid leaking make flags into testsuite results.
      tests: fix localization test for GCC on HP-UX 11.00.
      tests: avoid spurious pic_flag test failure on HP-UX 10.20.
      tests: avoid spurious test failure due to library mode on HP-UX.
      Merge branch 'master' into lto
      Merge remote branch 'origin/master'
      Merge branch 'lto'
      Fix getopt.m4sh to require Autoconf 2.62 or newer.
      Fix AC_NO_EXECUTABLES test failure on IRIX 6.5.
      tests: work around zsh use of $options variable.
      tests: avoid empty AT_DATA contents, for zsh.
      docs: @file and @option markup fixes.
      doc: avoid long lines in input and output, indexing fixes.
      tests: avoid localization failure due to unstable compiler messages.
      LTO: consistently accept -fwhopr* and -flto* for GCC.
      Merge branch 'lto'
      tests: avoid distcheck failure with --disable-ltdl-install.
      Revert to per-language libpath computation on AIX.

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