Documentation issue

2019-09-05 Thread Peter Marshall
Hello, I think I found a documentation issue in the GNU make manual. Section 5.3 of the GNU make manual *implies *that $(@D) and $(@F) expand to the prerequisite path and file respectively, but section 10.5.3 says they expand according to the filename of the target. https://www.gnu.org/software/mak

Re: GNU make 4.2.90 release candidate available

2019-09-05 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2019-09-05 at 02:17 -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > So, it is not useless to test building with all improvements turned off > > because it lets us know whether our attempts to support very old > > environments are still working properly. > > > > But I would not recommend using such options