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GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*-
History of user-visible changes.
- 12 December 2005
+ 28 December 2005
Copyright (C) 2002,2003,2004,2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
@@ -14,7 +14,9 @@ Version 3.81beta4
* GNU make is ported to OS/2.
-* GNU make is ported to MinGW.
+* GNU make is ported to MinGW. The MinGW build is only supported by
+ the build_w32.bat batch file; see the file README.W32 for more
+ details.
* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
GNU make now implements a generic "second expansion" feature on the
@@ -36,8 +38,11 @@ Version 3.81beta4
* 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.
+ backslash-newline sequences in command strings has changed. If your
+ makefiles use backslash-newline sequences inside of single-quoted
+ strings in command scripts you will be impacted by this change. See
+ the GNU make manual section "Command Execution" (node "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
@@ -45,7 +50,7 @@ Version 3.81beta4
used to resolve target files. The default behavior remains as it
always has: use the modification time of the actual target file only.
-* The "else" conditional line can now be followed by any other legal
+* The "else" conditional line can now be followed by any other valid
conditional on the same line: this does not increase the depth of the
conditional nesting, so only one "endif" is required to close the
conditional.
@@ -98,10 +103,13 @@ Version 3.81beta4
an enhancement to POSIX, if you export the make variable SHELL then
it will be set in the environment, just as before.
-* On DOS and MS Windows systems, explicitly setting SHELL to a pathname
- ending in "cmd" or "cmd.exe" (case-insensitive) will force GNU make to
- use the DOS command interpreter in batch mode even if a UNIX-like
- shell could be found on the system.
+* On MS Windows systems, explicitly setting SHELL to a pathname ending
+ in "cmd" or "cmd.exe" (case-insensitive) will force GNU make to use
+ the DOS command interpreter in batch mode even if a UNIX-like shell
+ could be found on the system.
+
+* On VMS there is now support for case-sensitive filesystems such as ODS5.
+ See the readme.vms file for information.
* Updated to autoconf 2.59, automake 1.9.5, and gettext 0.14.1. Users
should not be impacted.
@@ -110,6 +118,10 @@ Version 3.81beta4
Belarusian, Finnish, Kinyarwandan, and Irish. Many updated
translations.
+A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
+
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=101
+
Version 3.80
@@ -187,6 +199,11 @@ Version 3.80
See ABOUT-NLS for more information.
* Updated to autoconf 2.54 and automake 1.7. Users should not be impacted.
+
+A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
+
+ http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=102
+
Version 3.79.1