tower@WHEATIES.AI.MIT.EDU (04/27/89)
[ This software will soon be available for anonymous uucp on osu-cis and anonymous ftp on gatekeeper.dec.com. ] Forwarded-For: Roland McGrath <roland@wheaties.ai.mit.edu> Version 3.47 of GNU Make is now available for anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu. It is in the files make-3.47.tar.Z (source) and make-3.47-doc.tar.Z (Info and DVI files). Differences from version 3.45 are in make-3.45-3.47.diff (uncompressed, ~80k) and make-3.45-3.47.diff.Z (compressed, ~30k). Differences cover only source changes (files in make-3.47.tar.Z), and do not include changes to the TAGS file (which can be remade with `etags'). Differences from version 3.46 (which I don't think anybody has) are in make-3.46-3.47.diff.Z, in case you need them for some reason. This version fixes some bugs in previous versions, and adds two new features: * The `-l' switch with no argument removes a previous load-average limit. * The `$*' automatic variable is now defined for explicit rules as in Unix make (to the target's name sans any suffix in the .SUFFIXES list if it has one, or empty if it doesn't). *** NOTE: This change will allow GNU Make to compile the X Window System. (Another non-user-visible change is that the `MAKEFLAGS' variable will no longer have extraneous `-l0.000000's in it.) The manual is now called Edition 0.21 Beta. (It was 0.2 for 3.45, and 0.3 for 3.46 [which noone got]). In general, the manual's Edition number will change whenever the manual changes, but rewriting of the manual (changes other than to keep up with changes in the program) will change it more (e.g., from 0.21 to 0.30, rather than from 0.21 to 0.22). This will hopefully be the last release of GNU Make for a while. If I don't get any bug reports in the next month, I will halt changes to version 3, and begin major work for version 4. Send bug reports to bug-gnu-utils@prep.ai.mit.edu or newsgroup gnu.utils.bug (but not both; they are the same thing). Send other comments, questions, suggestions, etc. to roland@wheaties.ai.mit.edu. Enjoy! Roland McGrath roland@wheaties.ai.mit.edu / mit-eddie!wheaties.ai.mit.edu!roland