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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 1999-04-25 04:30:55 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 1999-04-25 04:30:55 +0000 |
| commit | fc0fe4103ac983d88b83dad0daf97664ffa8e04b (patch) | |
| tree | 7f2a029706a5547af16132ae451a673936b353bf /NEWS | |
| parent | 7f3ffd401903e04637c0e822e152e8dc632264e5 (diff) | |
| download | gunmake-fc0fe4103ac983d88b83dad0daf97664ffa8e04b.tar.gz | |
* Add new jobserver feature.
* Small updates to the manual
* E.Zaretskii fix for new DJGPP version.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*- History of user-visible changes. - 31 Mar 1999 + 13 Apr 1999 Copyright (C) 1992,93,94,95,96,97,98,1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -23,6 +23,15 @@ Version 3.78 * Make allows CRLF sequences as well as traditional LF, for compatibility with makefiles created on other operating systems. + +* A "job server" feature, proposed by Howard Chu <hyc@highlandsun.com>. + + On systems that support POSIX pipe(2) semantics, GNU make can now pass + -jN options to submakes rather than forcing them all to use -j1. The + top make and all its sub-make processes use a pipe to communicate with + each other to ensure that no more than N jobs are started across all + makes. To get the old behavior of -j back, you can configure make + with the --disable-job-server option. Version 3.77 |