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GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*-
History of user-visible changes.
- 12 Oct 2009
+ 25 Oct 2009
See the end of this file for copyrights and conditions.
@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ Version 3.81.90
existing targets were provided in $?).
* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
- As a result of parser enhancements, two backward-compatibility issues exist:
- first, a prerequisite containing an "=" cannot be escaped with a backslash
- any longer. You must create a variable containing an "=" and use that
- variable in the prerequisite. Second, variable names can no longer contain
- whitespace, unless you put the whitespace in a variable and use the
- variable.
+ As a result of parser enhancements, three backward-compatibility issues
+ exist: first, a prerequisite containing an "=" cannot be escaped with a
+ backslash any longer. You must create a variable containing an "=" and use
+ that variable in the prerequisite. Second, variable names can no longer
+ contain whitespace, unless you put the whitespace in a variable and use the
+ variable. Third, in previous versions of make it was sometimes not flagged
+ as an error for explicit and pattern targets to appear in the same rule.
+ Now this is always reported as an error.
* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
The pattern-specific variables and pattern rules are now applied in the