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authorPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2004-01-21 06:32:59 +0000
committerPaul Smith <psmith@gnu.org>2004-01-21 06:32:59 +0000
commit1f16ee5c2d482a75504fbbcf70e9e2a44acc1339 (patch)
treefce4f9c32c1345b44f5dcab09c3d8456cf230726 /README.W32.template
parent2b3ee46f4e4e73cb3d05921391e5cf64990483a7 (diff)
downloadgunmake-1f16ee5c2d482a75504fbbcf70e9e2a44acc1339.tar.gz
Many bug fixes etc.
- Apply a fix for the "thundering herd" problem when using "-j -l". This also fixes bug #4693. - Fix bug #7257: allow functions as ifdef arguments - Fix bug #4518: make sure we print all double-colon rules with -p. - Upgrade to autconf 2.58/automake 1.8/gettext 0.13.1 - Various doc cleanups, etc.
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@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ GNU make and sh.exe:
GNU make and brain-dead shells (BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL):
- Some versions of Bourne shell does not behave well when invoked
+ Some versions of Bourne shell do not behave well when invoked
as 'sh -c' from CreateProcess(). The main problem is they seem
to have a hard time handling quoted strings correctly. This can
be circumvented by writing commands to be executed to a batch
@@ -83,7 +83,9 @@ GNU make and brain-dead shells (BATCH_MODE_ONLY_SHELL):
A native Windows32 system with no Bourne shell will also run
in batch mode. All command lines will be put into batch files
- and executed via $(COMSPEC) (%COMSPEC%).
+ and executed via $(COMSPEC) (%COMSPEC%). Note that parallel
+ builds (-j) require a working Bourne shell; they will not work
+ with COM.
GNU make and Cygnus GNU Windows32 tools: