Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2019-08-26 at 19:26 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:00:13 -0400
> > 
> > A new release candidate for GNU make 4.3 is available now for
> > download:
> > 
> >      36083ab822b50a9ecbf5467cdadff55c  make-4.2.90.tar.bz2
> >      e2c9abdeaf3725f8654a5e9d7a121fa9  make-4.2.90.tar.gz
> > 
> > You can obtain a copy from:  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> The file tests/README says to use "perl ./run_make_tests.pl" on
> Windows, but then what is the file run_make_tests.bat for?  It seems
> to do the same, but it also accepts argument.  How are these
> arguments used -- can I run just a specific test, for example?

Yes... you can use the .bat I should change the README.

I do it like this:

  cd tests
  .\run_make_tests.bat -make ..\WinRel\gnumake.exe

so it runs the just-built make (else it will run whatever is on your
PATH).

IIRC there may be a failure or two on Windows I can't remember.

To run individual tests you can give the name(s) on the command line. 
Note you can only run a whole file, you can't run just specific tests
within a file.