Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the copyright notices on the relevant files. =================================================================== RCS file: /ftp/cvs/cvsroot/src/UPDATING,v retrieving revision 1.75 retrieving revision 1.76 diff -u -p -r1.75 -r1.76 --- src/UPDATING 2002/11/21 18:05:59 1.75 +++ src/UPDATING 2002/11/22 15:48:33 1.76 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.75 2002/11/21 18:05:59 thorpej Exp $ +$NetBSD: UPDATING,v 1.76 2002/11/22 15:48:33 thorpej Exp $ This file is intended to be a brief introduction to the build process and a reference on what to do if something doesn't work. @@ -9,6 +9,20 @@ Recent changes: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 20021121: + The C run-time support files crtbegin.o and crtend.o + (and their companions crtbeginS.o and crtendS.o) were + split up, with new crti.o and crtn.o files resulting. + This means that libtool needs to be rebuilt once the + new libraries are installed. The process of rebuilding + libtool will cause it to automatically notice the new + required files, but it *must* be rebuilt in order to + do this. + + An out-of-date libtool will result in shared libraries + which lack _init() and _fini() routines, which means that + their global contructors/destructors will not be invoked. + +20021121: A bug related to how ARM ELF objects were tagged has been corrected.