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| author | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 1999-03-26 04:04:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Smith <psmith@gnu.org> | 1999-03-26 04:04:42 +0000 |
| commit | c4353af3f9b143b213644c09da5cf46ef611b250 (patch) | |
| tree | a9bfafef0e2badb7a824de51c88aa01c0ac7e65f /NEWS | |
| parent | 8363e0496d1315d5881ebcd5ccdcead37c3f8a28 (diff) | |
| download | make-c4353af3f9b143b213644c09da5cf46ef611b250.tar.gz | |
* Reworked function.c to use separate functions instead of a huge case stmt.
* Added new functions $(error ...) and $(warning ...) and documented same.
* In windows/dos shells, only treat \ as an escape for special chars.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ GNU make NEWS -*-indented-text-*- History of user-visible changes. - 22 Feb 1999 + 22 Mar 1999 Copyright (C) 1992,93,94,95,96,97,98,1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. @@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ Please send GNU make bug reports to bug-make@gnu.org. Version 3.78 +* Two new functions, $(error ...) and $(warning ...) are provided. The + former will cause make to fail and exit immediately upon expansion of + the function, with the text provided as the error message. The latter + causes the text provided to be printed as a warning message, but make + proceeds normally. + * Make defines a new variable, .LIBPATTERNS. This variable controls how the link library dependency expansion (dependencies like ``-lfoo'') is performed. |