* Some minor pre-release updates.

ChangeLog

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 1999-09-15  Paul D. Smith  <psmith@gnu.org>
 
+	* Version 3.77.97 released.
+
 	* configure.in (MAKE_HOST): AC_SUBST this so it will go into the
 	makefile.
 	* Makefile.am (check-local): Print a success banner if the check

Makefile.am

@@ -76,11 +76,13 @@ dist-hook:
 # --------------- Local CHECK Section
 
 check-local: check-regression check-loadavg
-	@banner="Regression passed: GNU Make $(VERSION) ($(MAKE_HOST)) built with $(CC)"; \
+	@banner=" Regression PASSED: GNU Make $(VERSION) ($(MAKE_HOST)) built with $(CC) "; \
 	dashes=`echo "$$banner" | sed s/./=/g`; \
+	echo; \
 	echo "$$dashes"; \
 	echo "$$banner"; \
-	echo "$$dashes"
+	echo "$$dashes"; \
+	echo
 
 .PHONY: check-loadavg check-regression
 

NEWS

@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ Version 3.78
 
 * The Windows 95/98/NT (W32) version of GNU make now has native support
   for the Cygnus Cygwin release B20.1 shell (bash).
+
+* The GNU make regression test suite, long available separately "under
+  the table", has been integrated into the release.  You can invoke it
+  by running "make check" in the distribution.  Note that it requires
+  Perl (either Perl 4 or Perl 5) to run.
 
 Version 3.77
 

README.template

@@ -74,9 +74,8 @@ 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 configure support
-enabling GNU make to access large files (LFS) on those operating systems
-that support them.  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.
+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.

configure.in

@@ -225,8 +225,8 @@ AC_OUTPUT(build.sh Makefile glob/Makefile)
 
 dnl If we don't yet have build.sh.in, build.sh is a bogus 0-length file
 dnl so remove it.
-
-test -f build.sh.in || rm -f build.sh
+dnl Can't do this because then remote builds with build.sh don't work.
+dnl test -f build.sh.in || rm -f build.sh
 
 
 case "$make_badcust" in

maintMakefile

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ NMakefile: NMakefile.template .dep_segment Makefile
 #
 build.sh.in: build.template Makefile
 	rm -f $@
-	sed -e 's@%objs%@$(filter-out remote-%, $(make_OBJECTS)@g' \
+	sed -e 's@%objs%@$(filter-out remote-%,$(make_OBJECTS)@g' \
 	    -e 's@%globobjs%@$(patsubst %.c,%.o,$(globsrc)))@g' \
 	  $< > $@
 	chmod a-w+x $@