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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2005-02-28 07:48:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 2005-02-28 07:48:22 +0000 |
| commit | d2516343bc5c105543b22eed3b073a8a4e14a659 (patch) | |
| tree | b33081457bdf9207b45add40ba56fdeccf63fe6f /NEWS | |
| parent | 93bd1bd93c1033352e5059ed721a0cc769449639 (diff) | |
| download | gunmake-d2516343bc5c105543b22eed3b073a8a4e14a659.tar.gz | |
* New feature: -L option
* New function: $(info ...)
* Disallow $(eval ...) to create prereq relationships inside command scripts
(caused core dumps)
* Try to allow more tests to succeed in Windows/DOS by sanitizing CRLF and \
* Various bug fixes and code cleanups (see the ChangeLog entry)
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 20 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -13,7 +13,14 @@ reporting bugs. Version 3.81beta2 * GNU make is ported to OS/2. - Port provided by Andreas Buening <andreas.buening@nexgo.de>. + +* GNU make is ported to MinGW. + +* New command-line option: -L (--check-symlink-times). On systems that + support symbolic links, if this option is given then GNU make will + use the most recent modification time of any symbolic links that are + used to resolve target files. The default behavior remains as it + always has: use the modification time of the actual target file only. * All pattern-specific variables that match a given target are now used (previously only the first match was used). @@ -27,8 +34,13 @@ Version 3.81beta2 * Implemented a solution for the "thundering herd" problem with "-j -l". This version of GNU make uses an algorithm suggested by Thomas Riedl <thomas.riedl@siemens.com> to track the number of jobs started in the - last second and adjust GNU make's view of the system's load average - accordingly. + last second and artificially adjust GNU make's view of the system's + load average accordingly. + +* New special variables available in this release: + - .DEFAULT_TARGET: Contains the name of the default target make will + use if no targets are provided on the command line. It can be set + to change the default target. * New functions available in this release: - $(lastword ...) returns the last word in the list. This gives @@ -39,6 +51,8 @@ Version 3.81beta2 - $(realpath ...) returns the canonical pathname for each path provided. The canonical pathname is the absolute pathname, with all symbolic links resolved as well. + - $(info ...) prints informative messages to stdout. No makefile + name or line number info, etc. is printed, just the message. * Changes made for POSIX compatibility: - Only touch targets (under -t) if they have at least one command. |