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History of user-visible changes.
- 22 May 2016
+ 19 January 2020
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+All user-visible changes are more fully described in the GNU make manual,
+which is contained in this distribution as the file doc/make.texi.
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+Version 4.3 (19 Jan 2020)
+
+A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
+
+https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=108&set=custom
+
+* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
+ Number signs (#) appearing inside a macro reference or function invocation
+ no longer introduce comments and should not be escaped with backslashes:
+ thus a call such as:
+ foo := $(shell echo '#')
+ is legal. Previously the number sign needed to be escaped, for example:
+ foo := $(shell echo '\#')
+ Now this latter will resolve to "\#". If you want to write makefiles
+ portable to both versions, assign the number sign to a variable:
+ H := \#
+ foo := $(shell echo '$H')
+ This was claimed to be fixed in 3.81, but wasn't, for some reason.
+ To detect this change search for 'nocomment' in the .FEATURES variable.
+
+* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
+ Previously appending using '+=' to an empty variable would result in a value
+ starting with a space. Now the initial space is only added if the variable
+ already contains some value. Similarly, appending an empty string does not
+ add a trailing space.
+
+* NOTE: Deprecated behavior.
+ Contrary to the documentation, suffix rules with prerequisites are being
+ treated BOTH as simple targets AND as pattern rules. Further, the
+ prerequisites are ignored by the pattern rules. POSIX specifies that in
+ order to be a suffix rule there can be no prerequisites defined. In this
+ release if POSIX mode is enabled then rules with prerequisites cannot be
+ suffix rules. If POSIX mode is not enabled then the previous behavior is
+ preserved (a pattern rule with no extra prerequisites is created) AND a
+ warning about this behavior is generated:
+ warning: ignoring prerequisites on suffix rule definition
+ The POSIX behavior will be adopted as the only behavior in a future release
+ of GNU make so please resolve any warnings.
+
+* New feature: Grouped explicit targets
+ Pattern rules have always had the ability to generate multiple targets with
+ a single invocation of the recipe. It's now possible to declare that an
+ explicit rule generates multiple targets with a single invocation. To use
+ this, replace the ":" token with "&:" in the rule. To detect this feature
+ search for 'grouped-target' in the .FEATURES special variable.
+ Implementation contributed by Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com>
+
+* New feature: .EXTRA_PREREQS variable
+ Words in this variable are considered prerequisites of targets but they are
+ not added to any of the automatic variable values when expanding the
+ recipe. This variable can either be global (applies to all targets) or
+ a target-specific variable. To detect this feature search for 'extra-prereqs'
+ in the .FEATURES special variable.
+ Implementation contributed by Christof Warlich <cwarlich@gmx.de>
+
+* Makefiles can now specify the '-j' option in their MAKEFLAGS variable and
+ this will cause make to enable that parallelism mode.
+
+* GNU make will now use posix_spawn() on systems where it is available.
+ If you prefer to use fork/exec even on systems where posix_spawn() is
+ present, you can use the --disable-posix-spawn option to configure.
+ Implementation contributed by Aron Barath <baratharon@caesar.elte.hu>
+
+* Error messages printed when invoking non-existent commands have been cleaned
+ up and made consistent.
+
+* The previous limit of 63 jobs under -jN on MS-Windows is now
+ increased to 4095. That limit includes the subprocess started by
+ the $(shell) function.
+
+* A new option --no-silent has been added, that cancels the effect of the
+ -s/--silent/--quiet flag.
+
+* A new option -E has been added as a short alias for --eval.
+
+* All wildcard expansion within GNU make, including $(wildcard ...), will sort
+ the results. See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?52076
+
+* Interoperate with newer GNU libc and musl C runtime libraries.
+
+* Performance improvements provided by Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
+
+GNU make Developer News
+
+* Import the GNU standard bootstrap script to replace the hand-rolled
+ "make update" method for building code from a GNU make Git repository.
+
+* Rework the source distribution to move source files into the src/*
+ subdirectory. This aligns with modern best practices in GNU.
+
+* Replace local portability code with Gnulib content. Unfortunately due to a
+ problem with Gnulib support for getloadavg, this forces a requirement on
+ Automake 1.16 or above in order to build from Git. See README.git.
+
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+Version 4.2.1 (10 Jun 2016)
+
+A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
+
+https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=107&set=custom
+
+This release is a bug-fix release.
+
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Version 4.2 (22 May 2016)
A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
-http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=106&set=custom
+https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=106&set=custom
* New variable: $(.SHELLSTATUS) is set to the exit status of the last != or
$(shell ...) function invoked in this instance of make. This will be "0" if
A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
-http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=105&set=custom
+https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=105&set=custom
* New variables: $(MAKE_TERMOUT) and $(MAKE_TERMERR) are set to non-empty
values if stdout or stderr, respectively, are believed to be writing to a
A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
-http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=101&set=custom
+https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=101&set=custom
* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
If .POSIX is specified, then make adheres to the POSIX backslash/newline
A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:
-http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=104&set=custom
+https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=104&set=custom
* Compiling GNU make now requires a conforming ISO C 1989 compiler and
standard runtime library.
might have caused the target to rebuild. Starting with the _next_
release of GNU make, '$?' will contain all prerequisites that caused
the target to be considered out of date.
- See http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16051
+ See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?16051
* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
GNU make now implements a generic "second expansion" feature on the
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=103
+ https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=103
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Version 3.80 (03 Oct 2002)
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
+ https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=102
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Version 3.79.1 (23 Jun 2000)
(Changes from versions 1 through 3.05 were never recorded. Sorry.)
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