Re: GNU make 3.81beta3 released

[Dmitry V. Levin]

Hi,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 12:11:19AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> I've released GNU make 3.81beta3.  Many bugs have been fixed and some
> new features added.  My main immediate goal is to get everyone to test
> all the ports, and especially work out what to do about the various
> DOS/Windows/MINGW/OS2/MSC/etc. ports.  There are some bug fixes in this
> release which need to be carefully tested on these ports, and to a
> lesser extent on the VMS ports.  For example, bug #1332 has been fixed,
> implementing rigorous POSIX-compliant handling of backslash-newline
> pairs in command scripts.  I don't know how this will affect the
> DOS/Windows/etc. ports.

There is a real issue which should be dealed with before release:
"gcc -M -MF" doesn't aware of new make behaviour (second expansion) and
sometimes (e.g. for libjava files which contain $ symbols) produces
inappropriate dependencies.  The problem is that gcc should support make
without second expansion.

See also https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=12260


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