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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2002-07-08 02:26:47 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2002-07-08 02:26:47 +0000 |
| commit | 8572d6adf04d397505770b0b0d5cfd91cf6a92a8 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e590714da1d480bef4ca2afbe81fa95c2624de6 /NEWS | |
| parent | 4a073980236d80b47a24c5caea3ece4e9bb7e044 (diff) | |
| download | gunmake-8572d6adf04d397505770b0b0d5cfd91cf6a92a8.tar.gz | |
Major updates in preparation for 3.80.
New version of the manual, put into the doc subdir.
Enhancements: $(eval ...) and $(value ...) functions, various bug
fixes, etc. See the ChangeLog.
More to come.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*- History of user-visible changes. - 21 April 2002 + 06 July 2002 Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -14,6 +14,22 @@ reports. Version <next> +* 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. + +* A new function is defined: $(eval ...). The arguments to this + function should expand to makefile commands, which will then be + evaluated as if they had appeared in the makefile. In combination + with define/endef multiline variable definitions this is an extremely + powerful capability. The $(quote ...) function is also useful here. + +* A new built-in variable is defined, $(MAKEFILE_LIST). It contains a + list of each makefile GNU make has read, or started to read, in the + order in which they were encountered. So, the last filename in the + list when a makefile is just being read (before any includes) is the + name of the current makefile. + * The arguments to $(call ...) functions were being stored in $1, $2, etc. as recursive variables, even though they are fully expanded before assignment. This means that escaped dollar signs ($$ etc.) |