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- HISTORY of CHANGES to the Make program
- Copyright ⌐ 1991 by Ben Eng
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- KEY:
- -N New Feature
- -B Bug Fix in program
- -D Documentation
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- --
- Nov 2, 1991
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- changes from 1.4 to 1.5
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- -B only recognize variable assignment command before macro expansion
- otherwise, command lines containing an equal sign will not execute
- -B the - command prefix to ignore error returns was broken
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- --
- July 20, 1991 distributed 1.4 on Bix
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- changes from 1.3 to 1.4
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- -B changed all references of strcmp to stricmp
- -B enforcer hits removed
- -B version string conforms to style guide
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- --
- July 7, 1991
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- changes from 1.2 to 1.3
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- -N variable assignments may now be done in command lines
- -B the cd command would always be executed even if it appeared
- within a conditional command construct.
- -N at the suggestion of Peter da Silva, .ALWAYS, .NEVER,
- .ONCE, .INVISIBLE
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- ---
- June 30, 1991
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- changes from 1.1 to 1.2
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- -B .INCLUDE directive may now be used inside a conditional
- -B reassignment of a simple macro to an ordinary macro was broken
- -D rewrote documentation in LaTeX
- -N added the D and F macro extensions to automatic variables
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- ---
- June 16, 1991 distributed 1.1 on ab20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]
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- changes from 1.0 to 1.1
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- -B when the primary goal has no commands, no applicable implicit
- rules, and all of its dependencies are up to date, an error
- of "don't know how to make" is issued; bug is fixed
- -B added .PHONY directive to propagate the proper "up to date"
- condition past a phony target rule
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- -D updated the documentation on incompatibilites
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- ---
- June 15, 1991
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- changes from 0.9 to 1.0
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- -N added pattern rules (yeah!!!)
- -N replaced suffix rules with pattern rules
- -B changed include directive to .INCLUDE for Sun Make compatibilty
- -N added .DEFAULT rule
- -N added exists(filename) and nexists(filename) conditions
- -N conditional command execution in rules
- -N added $(patsubst from,to,names) function call
- -N $(subst ...) is now able to handle different size substitutions
- -N double colon rules added but they are severely broken
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- ---
- June 10, 1991
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- changes from 0.8 to 0.9
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- -N at the suggestion of Mike Sinz, added the include directive
- -B .SUFFIXES: is now a directive rather than a special target;
- code has been moved from read.c to input.c
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-
- ---
- June 9, 1991 distributed 0.8 on Bix
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- changes from 0.7 to 0.8
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- -N bmake now runs (barely) under 1.3 without wildcard support
- -N added $(sort names) function call
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- ---
- June 8, 1991
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- changes from 0.6 to 0.7
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- -N added the 'cd' command
- -N added $(join list1,list2) function call
- -N added $(dir names) function call
- -N added $(notdir names) function call
- -N added $(suffix names) function call
- -N added $(getenv name) function call
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- -N added DEBUG preprocessor symbol to disable code generation
- for debugprintf() and the printing of debugging information
- for the -d option.
-
-
- ---
- June 2, 1991 distributed 0.6 on ab20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]
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- changes from 0.5 to 0.6
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- -B macro expansion in the arguments to eq() and neq() conditions
- -B removed rawcon.c, so ^C breaks should work better
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- -N added $(words text) function call
- -N added $(word n,text) function call
- -N added $(firstword text) function call
- -N added stubs for function calls that are not implemented
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- -N changed static storage to dynamic storage for reading the Makefile
- -N the maximum line length can now be set as a parameter
- -N function calls are now able to accept arguments up to MaxLine
- in length
- -N added ``pragma'' directive to specify command line arguments
- for the Make program within the Makefile
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- -B removed enforcer hits; all were read-hits :-).
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- ---
- May 31, 1991 distributed 0.5 on Tardis BBS
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- changes from 0.4 to 0.5
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- -N conditionals
- -B command line macro assignments are performed twice; once before
- Makefile is read, and once before the Makefile is run
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- ---
- May 30, 1991
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- changes from 0.3 to 0.4
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- -B allow commas to be escaped with a backslash in function calls
- -B $(subst) changed to work at any position; not just suffixes
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- -N added $(filter pattern,text) function call
- -N added $(filter-out pattern,text) function call
- -N added $(wildcard pattern) function call
- -N added $(basename names) function call
- -N added $(addsuffix suffix,names) function call
- -N added $(addprefix prefix,names) function call
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- ---
- May 29, 1991 distributed 0.3 on ab20.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.23.64]
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- changes from 0.2 to 0.3
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- -D fixed the previous dates in the HISTORY file
- -D fixed the documentation on simple variables
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- -B added better error detection for infinitely expanded macros.
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- -B fixed the macro expansion for variables that expand
- to a value containing the character `$'
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- -B fixed the macro expansion for unknown variables
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- -N added function call capabilities to the macro expansion facility
- -N added $(strip string) function call
- -N added $(findstring find,in) function call
- -N added $(subst from,to,text) function call
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- ---
- May 28, 1991 distributed 0.2 on Bix
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- changes from 0.1 to 0.2
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- -B added a check for out of memory in ben/scdir.c
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- -N parsing of command line macro=value definitions
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- ---
- May 27, 1991 distributed 0.1 on Tardis BBS
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- changes from 0.0 to 0.1
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- -N recursive macro expansions within variable name
- references are now supported; ie. ${hello$(idx)}.
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- -B multiple expansions of the same variable was
- incorrectly trapped as an infinitely recursive
- macro expansion.
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- -B standard rules are now allowed to be defined as
- builtin rules, without being selected as the
- default target (goal) to be made.
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- -B when the Makefile does not end in an empty line
- the last rule is thrown out.
-
- ---
- May 26, 1991 limited local distribution
-
- initial release 0.0
-
- ---
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