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+This directory contains the 4.3 release of GNU Make.
See the file NEWS for the user-visible changes from previous releases.
In addition, there have been bugs fixed.
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System-specific Notes
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It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
-that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work
-correctly. It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work.
+that if you compile make with 'cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work
+correctly. It is said that using 'cc' without '-O' does work.
The standard /bin/sh on SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4 is broken and cannot be
used to configure GNU make. Please install a different shell such as
One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code
to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and
-debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works
-properly on your system. (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you
+debug this code, you can do 'make check-loadavg' to see if it works
+properly on your system. (You must run 'configure' beforehand, but you
need not build Make itself to run this test.)
Another potential source of porting problems is the support for large
files (LFS) in configure for those operating systems that provide it.
Please report any bugs that you find in this area. If you run into
difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to disable LFS by
-adding the `--disable-largefile' option to the `configure' script.
+adding the '--disable-largefile' option to the 'configure' script.
On systems that support micro- and nano-second timestamp values and
where stat(2) provides this information, GNU make will use it when
- See README.customs for details on integrating GNU make with the
Customs distributed build environment from the Pmake distribution.
- - See readme.vms for details about GNU Make on OpenVMS.
+ - See README.VMS for details about GNU Make on OpenVMS.
- See README.Amiga for details about GNU Make on AmigaDOS.
of DJGPP; see the WWW page http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ for more
information.
+ The Cygwin project maintains its own port of GNU make. That port may have
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+ it you should start by asking on those mailing lists and forums.
+
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