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8 <sect1 id="ch-system-libtool" role="wrap">
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12 <productname>libtool</productname>
13 <productnumber>&libtool-version;</productnumber>
14 <address>&libtool-url;</address>
17 <title>Libtool-&libtool-version;</title>
19 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool">
20 <primary sortas="a-Libtool">Libtool</primary>
23 <sect2 role="package">
26 <para>The Libtool package contains the GNU generic library support script.
27 It wraps the complexity of using shared libraries in a consistent, portable
31 <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
32 <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
35 <seg>&libtool-ch6-sbu;</seg>
36 <seg>&libtool-ch6-du;</seg>
42 <sect2 role="installation">
43 <title>Installation of Libtool</title>
45 <para>Prepare Libtool for compilation:</para>
47 <screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen>
49 <para>Compile the package:</para>
51 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
53 <para>To test the results<!--(about 11.0 SBU)-->, issue:</para>
55 <screen><userinput remap="test">make check</userinput></screen>
57 <note><para>The test time for libtool can be reduced significantly on a
58 system with multiple cores. To do this, append
59 <command>TESTSUITEFLAGS=-j<N></command> to the line above. For
60 instance, using -j4 can reduce the test time by over 60
61 percent.</para></note>
63 <para>Five tests are known to fail in the LFS build environment due
64 to a circular dependency, but all tests pass if rechecked after
65 automake is installed.</para>
67 <para>Install the package:</para>
69 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
74 <sect2 id="contents-libtool" role="content">
75 <title>Contents of Libtool</title>
78 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
79 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
80 <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
83 <seg>libtool and libtoolize</seg>
85 <seg>/usr/include/libltdl and /usr/share/libtool</seg>
90 <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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92 <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
94 <varlistentry id="libtool">
95 <term><command>libtool</command></term>
97 <para>Provides generalized library-building support services</para>
98 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libtool">
99 <primary sortas="b-libtool">libtool</primary>
104 <varlistentry id="libtoolize">
105 <term><command>libtoolize</command></term>
107 <para>Provides a standard way to add <command>libtool</command>
108 support to a package</para>
109 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libtoolize">
110 <primary sortas="b-libtoolize">libtoolize</primary>
115 <varlistentry id="libltdl">
116 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libltdl</filename></term>
118 <para>Hides the various difficulties of dlopening libraries</para>
119 <indexterm zone="ch-system-libtool libltdl">
120 <primary sortas="c-libltdl">libltdl</primary>