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2007-11-04New special variable: .RECIPEPREFIXPaul Smith1-0/+49
Allows the user to reset the prefix character for introducing recipe lines from the default (tab) to any other single character, and back again. Also, reworked the manual to consistently use the word "recipe" to describe the set of commands we use to update a target, instead of the various phrases used in the past: "commands", "command lines", "command scripts", etc.
2007-10-13Windows: allow SHELL to be set to a more complex value by checking itsPaul Smith1-0/+6
expansion to see if it's a valid shell, not just the unexpanded value.
2007-10-10Fixes from Eli Zaretskii:Paul Smith1-0/+16
Fix to allow quoted directories in PATH. Fix for Savannah bug #20549.
2007-10-10Some Windows fixes to allow builds to succeed.Paul Smith1-0/+12
2007-08-15Incorporate Icarus Sparry's fix for 3330 and 15919, and test cases.Paul Smith1-0/+13
One of our translations disappeared from the translations site so remove it. The fdl.texi file was changed to not contain any @node entries, so add some around it in make.texi.
2007-07-14Fix Savannah bug #20452.Paul Smith1-0/+7
Add a new feature to the test suite suggested by Icarus Sparry: set a timer before invoking a test, so that if it loops infinitely we will wake up and have a chance to kill the process and continue.
2007-07-04* Update to GPLv3Paul Smith1-4/+15
* Update copyright to 2007 * Fix download URL for translation files (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2007-06-19Fix a core dump when reading_file is 0 (20033).Paul Smith1-0/+10
Fix some manual typos (20018).
2007-05-11Fix some documentation gitches.Paul Smith1-0/+16
Fix an uninitialized variable. Add builtin rules for Objective C. Add a new debug line that shows where the commands that are about to be run were defined.
2007-05-09Fix Savannah bug #19656: rationalize our use of case-insensitive stringPaul Smith1-0/+22
comparison functions to always use POSIX strcasecmp(). For non-POSIX systems that use other functions (strcmpi or stricmp) use a macro to alias strcasecmp to those. If we can't find any of them (VMS, plus whatever UNIX doesn't have them) then define our own version in misc.c.
2007-03-21Fix Savannah bug #19348: if the user specifiedPaul Smith1-1/+6
--disable-case-insensitive-file-system, don't turn it on.
2007-03-20This is a major update, which switches virtually every allocated-but-not-freedPaul Smith1-1/+23
string into the strcache. As a side-effect, many more structure members and function arguments can/should be declared const. As mentioned in the changelog, unfortunately measurement shows that this change does not yet reduce memory. The problem is with secondary expansion: because of this we store all the prerequisites in the string cache twice. First we store the prerequisite string after initial expansion but before secondary expansion, then we store each individual file after secondary expansion and expand_deps(). I plan to change expand_deps() to be callable in either context (eval or snap_deps) then have non-second-expansion targets call expand_deps() during eval, so that we only need to store that dependency list once.
2006-11-18Fix from Eli for incorrect value of $(MAKE) on Cygwin.Paul Smith1-1/+42
A few changes from char* to void* where appropriate, and removing of unnecessary casts. Much more work on const-ifying the codebase. This round involves some code changes to make it correct. NOTE!! There will almost certainly be problems on the non-POSIX ports that will need to be addressed after the const changes are finished: they will need to be const-ified properly and there may need to be some changes to allocate memory, etc. as well. The next (last?) big push for this, still to come, is const-ifying the filenames in struct file, struct dep, etc. This will allow us to store file names in the string cache and finally resolve Savannah bug #15182 (make uses too much memory), among other advantages.
2006-10-01Fixed a number of documentation bugs, plus some build/install issues:Paul Smith1-0/+66
16304, 16468, 16577, 17701, 17880, 16051, 16652, 16698 Plus some from the mailing list. Imported a patch from Eli to allow Cygwin builds to support DOS-style pathnames.
2006-04-09Another round of cleanups:Paul Smith1-0/+27
- Add more warnings. - Rename variables that mask out-scope vars with the same name. - Remove all casts of return values from xmalloc, xrealloc, and alloca. - Remove casts of the first argument to xrealloc. - Convert all bcopy/bzero/bcmp invocations to use memcp/memmove/memset/memcmp.
2006-04-07Code cleanup: Remove all references to PARAMS() & ansi2knr.Paul Smith1-0/+17
2006-04-01Release GNU make 3.81.Paul Smith1-0/+36
Update NEWS docs. Enhance the manual to use automake version.texi, and use the canonical FSF copyright features and statement. Some $(realpath ...) tests won't work on Windows; leave them out The jobserver filedescriptor test might fail if some FDs are reserved, so for now comment out that check.
2006-03-22Fixed Savannah bug #16140.Boris Kolpackov1-0/+6
2006-03-20Add some alloca(0) calls for systems without "normal" alloca support.Paul Smith1-0/+15
Fix a file descriptor leak with make re-exec while using the jobserver. Update some release information.
2006-03-17Minor tweaks for 3.81rc2.Paul Smith1-0/+6
2006-03-17Fixed Savannah bug #16053.Boris Kolpackov1-1/+16
2006-03-15Fix Savannah bug #15913.Paul Smith1-1/+9
2006-03-10Numerous updates to tests for issues found on Cygwin and Windows.Paul Smith1-0/+25
Revert a fix for $? including non-existent files as it shows a bug in the Linux kernel build. Give them a release to fix this. Add some changes from Eli Z. for Windows changes.
2006-03-08Some test updates for Windows.Paul Smith1-0/+6
Handle SHELL set on the command line properly for windows.
2006-02-21Fix a potential core dump when merging aliases. Might fix bug #15818.Paul Smith1-0/+5
Revert intermediate file free code. Suppress some warnings in VMS builds.
2006-02-20- Memory cleanups, found with valgrind.Paul Smith1-0/+22
- Fix handling of special targets like .SUFFIX for VMS insensitive targets. - Don't make temporary batch files for -n. Make sure batch files are created in text mode.
2006-02-17Make sure we don't introduce a circularity into the variable set linkedPaul Smith1-0/+9
list. Fixes Savannah bug #15757.
2006-02-15Fix Savannah bug #106: keep separate track of which variable we arePaul Smith1-0/+21
expanding, and use that info when generating error messages instead of the file info, where appropriate.
2006-02-14Some memory leak cleanups (found with valgrind).Paul Smith1-0/+18
2006-02-13Fix bug #11183.Paul Smith1-0/+6
2006-02-11Last of the copyright updates.Paul Smith1-2/+2
2006-02-11Update copyright and license notices on all files.Paul Smith1-0/+27
Added new file strcache.c to various non-UNIX makefiles and build scripts.
2006-02-10- New code capability: a read-only string cache. Start of solution forPaul Smith1-0/+25
Savannah bug #15182, but not much uses it yet. Coming shortly. - Added short-circuiting $(and ..) and $(or ...) functions.
2006-02-08Fixed Savannah bug #15641.Boris Kolpackov1-0/+7
2006-02-06Updates to Windows stuff from Markus Mauhart.Paul Smith1-1/+12
2006-02-06Fix Savannah bugs # 15341, 15534, and 15533.Paul Smith1-0/+23
Rewrite large chunks of the "Commands" section of the manual to better describe then backslash-newline handling, the SHELL variable, etc.
2006-02-01Fix a bug where a variable could be used without being initialized in W32.Paul Smith1-0/+6
2006-02-01Various updates, mainly to the Windows port, from Eli Zaretskii andPaul Smith1-4/+47
Markus Maurhart.
2006-01-04Various changes getting ready for the release of 3.81.Paul Smith1-0/+60
- Updates to make.texi and make.1 and other documentation - Some VMS patches - Fix minor bugs reported on the mailing list and from Debian.
2005-12-14Fixed record_target_var to initialize variable's export field with v_defaultBoris Kolpackov1-0/+6
instead of leaving it "initialized" by whatever garbage happened to be on the heap.
2005-12-13Update the make.1 man page.Paul Smith1-0/+5
Use rm -f instead of rm in the test scripts. Fixes bug #15085.
2005-12-11Extend .SECONDEXPANSION to implicit rules. Final fix for bug #13781.Paul Smith1-0/+7
2005-12-09Fixed bug #13022 by setting is_target flag on files that this implicitBoris Kolpackov1-0/+6
pattern rule also makes.
2005-12-07Fixed bug #14334 by propagate the change of modification time to all theBoris Kolpackov1-0/+6
double-colon entries only if it is the last one to be updated.
2005-11-17Implemented the flavor function which returns the flavor ofBoris Kolpackov1-0/+7
a variable ('simple', 'recursive', or 'undefined').
2005-11-14Implemented the .INCLUDE_DIRS special variable. It expands to a listBoris Kolpackov1-0/+7
of directories that make searches for included makefiles.
2005-10-26Fix a crash I introduced last-minute.Paul Smith1-0/+6
Try to avoid extraneous rebuilds of template files.
2005-10-24Make second expansion optional (partial implementation).Paul Smith1-0/+36
I decided this feature was too impacting to make the permanent default behavior. This set of changes makes the default behavior of make the old behavior (no second expansion). If you want second expansion, you must define the .SECONDEXPANSION: special target before the first target that needs it. This set of changes ONLY fixes explicit and static pattern rules to work like this. Implicit rules still have second expansion enabled all the time: I'll work on that next. Note that there is still a backward-incompatibility: now to get the old SysV behavior using $$@ etc. in the prerequisites list you need to set .SECONDEXPANSION: as well.
2005-09-26Make sure to assign a boolean value to a 1-bit bitfield. Reported onPaul Smith1-0/+12
the bug-make mailing list. Fix Savannah bug # 14527: remember to free temporary line constructor memory if the line is empty.
2005-08-29Fix make.h preprocessor directive to work better with Windows compilers.Paul Smith1-0/+11
Fix some regression tests to (hopefully) work better on Windows.