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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
  %general-entities;
]>
<sect1 id="ch-system-libtool" xreflabel="Libtool" role="wrap">
<title>Libtool-&libtool-version;</title>
<?dbhtml filename="libtool.html"?>

<indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool"><primary sortas="a-Libtool">Libtool</primary></indexterm>

<sect2 role="package"><title/>
<para>The Libtool package contains the GNU generic library support script.
It wraps the complexity of using shared libraries in a consistent, portable
interface.</para>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
<segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>1.5 SBU</seg><seg>20 MB</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Libtool installation depends on</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>
</sect2>

<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Libtool</title>

<para>Prepare Libtool for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>To test the results, issue:
<userinput>make check</userinput>.</para>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

</sect2>


<sect2 id="contents-libtool" role="content"><title>Contents of Libtool</title>

<segmentedlist>
<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
<seglistitem><seg>libtool and libtoolize</seg><seg>libltdl.[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
</segmentedlist>

<variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>

<varlistentry id="libtool">
<term><command>libtool</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libtool"><primary sortas="b-libtool">libtool</primary></indexterm>
<para>provides generalized library-building support services.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="libtoolize">
<term><command>libtoolize</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libtoolize"><primary sortas="b-libtoolize">libtoolize</primary></indexterm>
<para>provides a standard way to add libtool support to a package.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>

<varlistentry id="libltdl">
<term><command>libltdl</command></term>
<listitem>
<indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libltdl"><primary sortas="c-libltdl">libltdl</primary></indexterm>
<para>hides the various difficulties of dlopening libraries.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>

</sect2>

</sect1>