* 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)

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/make.texi b/doc/make.texi
index 9b6f9d8..c6f4c1a 100644
--- a/doc/make.texi
+++ b/doc/make.texi
@@ -6750,6 +6750,13 @@ and the resulting message is displayed, but processing of the makefile
 continues.
 
 The result of the expansion of this function is the empty string.
+
+@item $(info @var{text}@dots{})
+@findex info
+@cindex printing messages
+This function does nothing more than print its (expanded) argument(s)
+to standard output.  No makefile name or line number is added.  The
+result of the expansion of this function is the empty string.
 @end table
 
 @node Running, Implicit Rules, Functions, Top
@@ -7366,6 +7373,16 @@ other jobs running and the load average is at least @var{load} (a
 floating-point number).  With no argument, removes a previous load
 limit.  @xref{Parallel, ,Parallel Execution}.
 
+@item -L
+@cindex @code{-L}
+@itemx --check-symlink-times
+@cindex @code{--check-symlink-times}
+On systems that support symbolic links, this option causes @code{make}
+to consider the timestamps on any symbolic links in addition to the
+timestamp on the file referenced by those links.  When this option is
+provided, the most recent timestamp among the file and the symbolic
+links is taken as the modification time for this target file.
+
 @item -n
 @cindex @code{-n}
 @itemx --just-print