GNU Libtool 1.5.8 released.

[Peter O'Gorman]

The Libtool Team is pleased to announce the release of GNU Libtool
1.5.8.

GNU Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a
consistent, portable interface. GNU Libtool ships with GNU libltdl,
which hides the comlexity of loading dynamic runtime libraries
(modules) behind a consistent, portable interface.

This release has a number of improvements and bug fixes.

New in 1.5.8: Saturday, August 7th 2004

* Support for Intel C++ version 8.0.
* Improved support for OpenBSD.
* Support for xlc on Mac OS X.
* Better support for zsh as /bin/sh.
* Much faster check for command line length on all BSD systems.
* Better Mac OS X/darwin support.
* Bug Fixes.

libtool-1.5.8 is available now from ftp.gnu.org, along with
diffs and xdeltas against libtool-1.5.6
that are also available from ftp.gnu.org.  Please
use a mirror to reduce stress on the main gnu machine:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

Here are the compressed sources:

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.8.tar.gz

Here are the xdeltas and diffs against libtool-1.5.6:

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.diff.gz
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.xdelta

Here are the gpg detached signatures:

  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.8.tar.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.diff.gz.sig
  ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.xdelta.sig

Here are the MD5 and SHA1 checksums:

  ed04093bc9d88faa3e476ac6f4db8d50 libtool-1.5.8.tar.gz
  eab29ab110e8a091bca7e10e7f89bd56 libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.diff.gz
  9ac0918efaf46e7a96e1112436eafb1c libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.xdelta
  939ad0c7745b19a1a0fa6d49baa1478b9b261758 libtool-1.5.8.tar.gz
  655b5e550c13bd7afea85344a756d002f4c2ea8d libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.diff.gz
  0ea05489965a8eb238da674a86968d953110bd24 libtool-1.5.6-1.5.8.xdelta

This release was bootstrapped with Automake 1.8.5 and Autoconf 2.59
but is useable with Autoconf 2.50 & later and Automake 1.4 & later
in your own projects.

Alternatively, you can fetch the unbootstrapped sourcecode from
anonymous cvs by using the following commands (just hit return when
you are prompted for the password):

  $ export CVS_RSH=ssh
  $ cvs -z3 -d :ext:address@hidden:/cvsroot/libtool \
  co -r release-1-5-8 libtool

You will then need to have recent versions of Automake
(Automake 1.8 & later) and Autoconf (Autoconf 2.59) installed to
bootstrap the checked out sources yourself.

Please report bugs to <address@hidden>.