Re: Online manual: wrong define in eval section

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2011-10-08 at 18:04 +0200, Georg Sauthoff wrote:
> > It's not the manual that's outdated, it's your version of GNU make.
> 
> oh, you are right.
> 
> Somehow did not expect such a change in syntax at this age of GNU make or
> between minor version numbers.

There is always new syntax in every release.

As for version numbers, GNU make's versioning just goes up by one minor
number each release.  We've never bumped the major number even for
significant new features.  It would take a truly earth-shattering change
to send us to 4.0 at this point (or alternatively, maybe we get to 3.99
and don't want to go to 3.100 :-)).

The oldest version of GNU make I have documentation for was already
3.03, and that was released back in August of 1988.

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