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Author SHA1 Message Date
Paul Smith
7670c84f77 Implement new "load" directive.
Provides support for dynamically loadable objects in GNU make, as a
"technology preview".
2012-10-29 07:05:21 +00:00
Paul Smith
adb50bd4c9 Simplify copyrights using ranges of years.
The new GNU Maintainer's Manual allows the use of year ranges in certain
situations; take advantage of this simplification.
2012-03-05 14:10:39 +00:00
Paul Smith
88f1bc8b55 Modify backslash/newline handling for POSIX.
We fixed Savannah 16670 but that broke previously-working makefiles
that relied on the GNU make behavior.  The POSIX behavior doesn't
seem to me to be better, and can be obtained using GNU make as well,
so put it back as the default behavior and require .POSIX to
get the POSIX behavior.
Add a new section to the manual discussing backslash/newline handling.
Update the test suite.
2012-03-03 18:45:08 +00:00
Paul Smith
ef6461611b Add support for "::=" simple assignment operator.
The next POSIX standard will define "::=" to have the same behavior
as GNU make's ":=", so add support for this new operator.
2012-01-30 00:21:57 +00:00
Paul Smith
fca11f6039 Create a new function $(file ...) 2012-01-29 18:12:22 +00:00
Paul Smith
4e2e5eb199 Disallow whitespace in variable names. 2012-01-16 02:44:04 +00:00
Paul Smith
3f6bb04e75 Update copyright notices. 2012-01-16 02:29:20 +00:00
Paul Smith
c992c4d80f Add GNU Guile as an optional embedded scripting language for make.
On configure-enabled systems, configure will detect Guile installed
(using pkg-config, which is how GNU Guile is distributed) and enable
it if so.

On all non-configure-enabled systems, currently, the default is for
Guile support to be disabled.
2012-01-15 22:41:53 +00:00
Paul Smith
a5c774a51b Ensure variables defined in $(call ...) have global scope
Add a note about using #!/usr/bin/make -f to the manual.
Clean up the w32 subdirectory in the dist tarball.
2011-09-12 05:29:58 +00:00
Paul Smith
bd6f63e563 Updated documentation to fix Savannah bugs #32058 and #31582 2011-05-02 15:11:23 +00:00
Paul Smith
b34438bee8 Add new feature: != shell assignment for portability with BSD make.
Feature submitted by David Wheeler.
2011-04-18 01:25:20 +00:00
Paul Smith
1454a04f81 * Fixups to the make man page
* Minor syntax cleanups in the manual
* In non-maintainer mode set NDEBUG to disable assert()
* Performance improvements in strcache:
    Build Info			1000	2000	4000
    3.82 -g			2.61s	8.85s	33.52s
    3.82 -O2			1.90s	7.62s	27.82s
    New -g (with asserts)	1.03s	2.31s	5.79s
    New -O2 (no asserts)	0.65s	1.50s	3.52s
2011-02-21 07:30:11 +00:00
Paul Smith
ae2ab76fac Check if the target-specific variable is the same as the global
variable, and if so don't try to update it.  Savannah bug #31743.
2010-11-30 14:48:52 +00:00
Paul Smith
391456aad7 Improve backslash/newline handling to adhere to POSIX requirements. 2010-11-06 21:56:23 +00:00
Paul Smith
a86d1693ba Bump the version to 3.82.90.
Fix some doc bugs.
Implement the --trace flag.
Show filename/linenumber on error.
2010-08-29 23:05:26 +00:00
Paul Smith
fba20a776d - Many fixup patches from Savannah.
- Fix the test suite on Solaris (from Boris)
- Update the manual for .ONESHELL
2010-07-19 07:10:53 +00:00
Paul Smith
9903cda2a7 Update copyrights for 2010. 2010-07-13 01:20:10 +00:00
Paul Smith
c7b469f0f3 - Enhance .POSIX to set -e when invoking shells, as demanded by a
backward-incompatible change in the 2008 POSIX specification.
- Add the .SHELLFLAGS variable so people can choose their own shell flags.
- Add tests for this.
- Add documentation for this.
2010-07-06 06:37:42 +00:00
Boris Kolpackov
fe43fa9de3 Implement linker-compatible library search. 2009-11-12 16:42:36 +00:00
Paul Smith
4e51b6d9a4 New command line option: --eval=STRING will cause STRING to be
evaluated as a makefile statement before the first makefile is
read.
2009-10-25 00:46:52 +00:00
Boris Kolpackov
4254e88cfa Implement the new undefine directive. 2009-10-06 06:56:57 +00:00
Paul Smith
f907a4d90c - Update manual description for pattern rule search algorithm
- Add new "-all" flag to the test suite to run tests that don't pass yet
- Add some non-passing tests
- Fix from Andreas Buening for OS/2.
2009-09-28 23:08:49 +00:00
Boris Kolpackov
f5891a26d8 Implement the shortest stem first search order for pattern-specific variables and pattern rules. 2009-09-28 12:31:55 +00:00
Paul Smith
958ea92eb8 - Fix Savannah bug #21824: don't loop through NULL cmds pointer
- Fix Savannah bugs #24509, 18963: doc enhancements
2009-09-12 21:28:33 +00:00
Paul Smith
7deb42aafd - Fix Savannah bug #27093
- Fix Savannah bug #27143
- Fix Savannah bug #23960
- Fix Savannah bug #27148
2009-08-02 16:05:42 +00:00
Paul Smith
e2f16fdf45 Changes from Ralf Wildenhues. 2009-08-01 22:09:40 +00:00
Paul Smith
dceb954f9c - Fix Savannah bug #13401 2009-06-13 23:10:52 +00:00
Paul Smith
81f3e4babd - Modify access of config and gnulib Savannah modules to use GIT
- Fix Savannah bug #24655.
- Fix Savannah bug #24588.
- Fix Savannah bug #24277.
- Fix Savannah bug #25697.
- Fix Savannah bug #25694.
- Fix Savannah bug #25460.
- Fix Savannah bug #26207.
- Fix Savannah bug #25712.
- Fix Savannah bug #26593.
- Fix various doc issues.
2009-06-04 06:30:27 +00:00
Paul Smith
5b4d419476 Add 'private' variable modifier, feature submitted by Ramon Garcia.
Rework the parser for variables to allow multiple modifiers and also
allow for variables and targets with modifier names, like "export" and
"private".
2009-05-26 01:31:40 +00:00
Paul Smith
7b16a8e3ca We had the incorrect ISBN in the manual; not sure what happened here
but the FSF confirmed that we had the wrong one.
2009-05-24 19:06:04 +00:00
Paul Smith
b50116c4ae Manual typo.
New translation.
2008-05-18 15:11:39 +00:00
Paul Smith
43d81ff866 New special variable: .RECIPEPREFIX
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.
2007-11-04 21:54:00 +00:00
Paul Smith
19b6504f8a Incorporate Icarus Sparry's fix for 3330 and 15919, and test cases.
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.
2007-08-15 13:53:53 +00:00
Paul Smith
891ebd4d97 * Update to GPLv3
* Update copyright to 2007
* Fix download URL for translation files (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
2007-07-04 19:35:15 +00:00
Paul Smith
a940199072 Fix a core dump when reading_file is 0 (20033).
Fix some manual typos (20018).
2007-06-19 04:47:58 +00:00
Paul Smith
eda0e24ccd Fix some documentation gitches.
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.
2007-05-11 20:57:21 +00:00
Paul Smith
7595f38f62 Fixed a number of documentation bugs, plus some build/install issues:
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.
2006-10-01 05:38:38 +00:00
Paul Smith
a8f101d0bc Release GNU make 3.81.
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.
2006-04-01 06:36:40 +00:00
Paul Smith
86af3872a9 Some memory leak cleanups (found with valgrind). 2006-02-14 15:42:17 +00:00
Paul Smith
a6bdc58385 Last of the copyright updates. 2006-02-11 22:16:04 +00:00
Paul Smith
586daef9bc Update copyright and license notices on all files.
Added new file strcache.c to various non-UNIX makefiles and build scripts.
2006-02-11 19:02:21 +00:00
Paul Smith
5a7a42cfce - New code capability: a read-only string cache. Start of solution for
Savannah bug #15182, but not much uses it yet.  Coming shortly.
- Added short-circuiting $(and ..) and $(or ...) functions.
2006-02-10 05:29:00 +00:00
Paul Smith
a4e3523fe4 Fix Savannah bugs # 15341, 15534, and 15533.
Rewrite large chunks of the "Commands" section of the manual to better
describe then backslash-newline handling, the SHELL variable, etc.
2006-02-06 16:21:59 +00:00
Paul Smith
4cd3539024 Various updates, mainly to the Windows port, from Eli Zaretskii and
Markus Maurhart.
2006-02-01 07:54:22 +00:00
Paul Smith
64e16d6c00 Various changes getting ready for the release of 3.81.
- Updates to make.texi and make.1 and other documentation
- Some VMS patches
- Fix minor bugs reported on the mailing list and from Debian.
2006-01-04 14:45:16 +00:00
Boris Kolpackov
1fd3f9d79c Implemented the flavor function which returns the flavor of
a variable ('simple', 'recursive', or 'undefined').
2005-11-17 07:27:28 +00:00
Boris Kolpackov
3dd1faa5c8 Implemented the .INCLUDE_DIRS special variable. It expands to a list
of directories that make searches for included makefiles.
2005-11-14 15:31:13 +00:00
Paul Smith
11095a90f1 Make second expansion optional (partial implementation).
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.
2005-10-24 13:01:39 +00:00
Paul Smith
b237dff775 - Fixed a bug reported by Michael Matz regarding handling of parallel
jobs after a failed job.
- Enhancements to WINDOWS32 code from Eli Zaretskii.
- Add Microsoft Project files from J. Grant.
2005-08-08 05:08:00 +00:00
Paul Smith
da1b137e38 Fix strerror() handling for systems which set ANSI_STRING.
Don't print errors if "include" is specified with no arguments.
New test suite for the $(shell ...) function.
2005-06-27 01:01:07 +00:00