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@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=109&se avoiding the need for heuristics. Implementation provided by Sven C. Dack <sdack@gmx.com> +* GNU make has sometimes chosen unexpected, and sub-optimal, chains of + implicit rules due to the definition of "ought to exist" in the implicit + rule search algorithm, which considered any prerequisite mentioned in the + makefile as "ought to exist". This algorithm has been modified to prefer + prerequisites mentioned explicitly in the target being built and only if + that results in no matching rule, will GNU make consider prerequisites + mentioned in other targets as "ought to exist". + Implementation provided by Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net> + * If the MAKEFLAGS variable is modified in a makefile, it will be re-parsed immediately rather than after all makefiles have been read. Note that although all options are parsed immediately, some special effects won't @@ -89,15 +98,6 @@ https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=109&se made as a side-effect of some other target's recipe are now noticed as expected. -* GNU make has sometimes chosen unexpected, and sub-optimal, chains of - implicit rules due to the definition of "ought to exist" in the implicit - rule search algorithm, which considered any prerequisite mentioned in the - makefile as "ought to exist". This algorithm has been modified to prefer - prerequisites mentioned explicitly in the target being built and only if - that results in no matching rule, will GNU make consider prerequisites - mentioned in other targets as "ought to exist". - Implementation provided by Dmitry Goncharov <dgoncharov@users.sf.net> - * GNU Make can now be built for MS-Windows using the Tiny C tcc compiler. Port provided by Christian Jullien <eligis@orange.fr> |