From 6e51d9c90a92933e6cf84ae494076b6b1cd17c3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Smith Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:51:58 +0000 Subject: Some code cleanups and efficiency enhancements. As far as I can tell none of these have impacts that are visible to the user (although in some cases that appears to be nothing more than dumb luck :-/). --- NEWS | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'NEWS') diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 49f4f57..750bd3b 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*- History of user-visible changes. - 06 March 2004 + 21 September 2004 Copyright (C) 2002,2003,2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ Version 3.81beta1 last second and adjust GNU make's view of the system's load average accordingly. +* 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. + * Enhancements for POSIX compatibility: - Only touch targets (under -t) if they have at least one command. -- cgit v1.2.3