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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 |