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authorPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2005-06-26 03:31:29 +0000
committerPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2005-06-26 03:31:29 +0000
commitd6a7894d3a6bdb45def58b2fdfb0629233f4f38b (patch)
tree30cd386b442d5d2d6c6b2864be767a78630c767d /NEWS
parentf388233b033ccae26e567fb573fd3d7a87c71744 (diff)
downloadgunmake-d6a7894d3a6bdb45def58b2fdfb0629233f4f38b.tar.gz
Fix Savannah bug # 1332: handle backslash-newline pairs in command scripts
according to POSIX rules.
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@@ -28,6 +28,11 @@ Version 3.81beta3
double-quote any "$" in your filenames; instead of "foo: boo$$bar" you
now must write "foo: foo$$$$bar".
+* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
+ In order to comply with POSIX, the way in which GNU make processes
+ backslash-newline sequences in command strings has changed. See the
+ GNU make manual section "Shell Execution" for details.
+
* 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