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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2002-07-10 12:59:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2002-07-10 12:59:07 +0000 |
| commit | 4d72c4c11e3aff65e9bb36e5fcf75f088b140049 (patch) | |
| tree | 92a4ac290dd9b9f2261e60457aca9b5a951bc15b /NEWS | |
| parent | 6c9a393f954805d49ab6c66957b46199ddd6e78e (diff) | |
| download | gunmake-4d72c4c11e3aff65e9bb36e5fcf75f088b140049.tar.gz | |
Implement SysV-style $$@ support. I looked at E.Parmelan's patch but
decided to implement this a different way, and didn't use it.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 11 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*- History of user-visible changes. - 06 July 2002 + 10 July 2002 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ Please send GNU make bug reports to <bug-make@gnu.org>. See the README file and the GNU make manual for details on sending bug reports. -Version <next> +Version 3.80 * A new feature exists: order-only prerequisites. These prerequisites affect the order in which targets are built, but they do not impact @@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ Version <next> requiring that target A will always be rebuilt if target B is updated. Patch for this feature provided by Greg McGary <greg@mcgary.org>. +* For compatibility with SysV make, GNU make now supports the peculiar + syntax $$@, $$(@D), and $$(@F) in the prerequisites list of a rule. + This syntax is only valid within explicit and static pattern rules: it + cannot be used in implicit (suffix or pattern) rules. Edouard G. Parmelan + <egp@free.fr> provided a patch implementing this feature; however, I + decided to implemented it myself in a different way. + * A new function is defined: $(quote ...). The argument to this function is the _name_ of a variable. The result of the function is the value of the variable, without having been expanded. |