id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
1112	Make 4.2.1	chris@…	clfs-commits@…	"New version
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A complete list of bugs fixed in this version is available here:

http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=106&set=custom

* New variable: $(.SHELLSTATUS) is set to the exit status of the last != or
  $(shell ...) function invoked in this instance of make.  This will be ""0"" if
  successful or not ""0"" if not successful.  The variable value is unset if no
  != or $(shell ...) function has been invoked.

* The $(file ...) function can now read from a file with $(file <FILE).
  The function is expanded to the contents of the file.  The contents are
  expanded verbatim except that the final newline, if any, is stripped.

* The makefile line numbers shown by GNU make now point directly to the
  specific line in the recipe where the failure or warning occurred.
  Sample changes suggested by Brian Vandenberg <phantall@gmail.com>

* The interface to GNU make's ""jobserver"" is stable as documented in the
  manual, for tools which may want to access it.

  WARNING: Backward-incompatibility! The internal-only command line option
  --jobserver-fds has been renamed for publishing, to --jobserver-auth.

* The amount of parallelism can be determined by querying MAKEFLAGS, even when
  the job server is enabled (previously MAKEFLAGS would always contain only
  ""-j"", with no number, when job server was enabled).

* VMS-specific changes:

  * Perl test harness now works.

  * Full support for converting Unix exit status codes to VMS exit status
    codes.  BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY Notice: On a child failure the VMS exit
    code is now the encoded Unix exit status that Make usually generates, not
    the VMS exit status of the child.
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This version causes problems with parallel builds in some packages - ones that built fine with multiple make jobs now only work with -j1. I've uploaded a patch taken from LFS, which came from upstream, to fix this issue."	task	closed	major	CLFS Standard 3.1.0	BOOK	CLFS Standard GIT	fixed		berzerkula@… jonathan@… chris@… cross-lfs@…