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@@ -37,6 +37,15 @@ Version 3.81.90
patterns are preferred. To detect this feature search for 'shortest-stem'
in the .FEATURES special variable.
+* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
+ The library search behavior has changed to be compatible with the standard
+ linker behavior. Prior to this version for prerequisites specified using
+ the -lfoo syntax make fist searched for libfoo.so in the current directory,
+ vpath directories, and system directories. If that didn't yield a match,
+ make then searched for libfoo.a in these directories. Starting with this
+ version make searches first for libfoo.so and then for libfoo.a in each
+ of these directories in order.
+
* New command line option: --eval=STRING causes STRING to be evaluated as
makefile syntax (akin to using the $(eval ...) function). The evaluation is
performed after all default rules and variables are defined, but before any