Date:	Sun, 25 Jul 1999 11:57:53 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
X-Sender:	eliz AT is
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Make 3.78 is in pretest
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.990725115706.27488b@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com

GNU Make 3.78 entered pretest.  I would appreciate if some of you
could test the new version in addition to me.  Those who can should
fetch the source distribution from this URL:

   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/make/make-3.77.90.tar.gz

and ask me to send you patches to this distribution, since I already
saw several small problems.  Thanks in advance to those who will
participate in the testing.

Btw, the above place has a test suite for Make, but I never had time
to see if it works with the DJGPP version (it probably doesn't) and
get it to work.  If somebody wants to work on that, it would make
testing new releases more reliable.  The test suite needs Perl.

The new Make has a new feature: the special target .LIBPATTERNS tells
Make where to look for libraries that appear as -lNAME in the
dependencies.  The default value of .LIBPATTERNS for DJGPP is
"lib%.a $(DJDIR)/lib/lib%.a".  If somebody thinks this should be
changed or amended, please tell me.

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