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This directory contains the 4.3 release of GNU Make.
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See the file NEWS for the user-visible changes from previous releases.
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In addition, there have been bugs fixed.
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Please check the system-specific notes below for any caveats related to your
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operating system.
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If you are trying to build GNU make from a Git clone rather than a downloaded
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source distribution, see the README.git file for instructions.
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For source distribution building and installation instructions, see the file
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INSTALL.
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If you need to build GNU Make and have no other 'make' program to use, you can
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use the shell script 'build.sh' instead. To do this, first run 'configure' as
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described in INSTALL. Then, instead of typing 'make' to build the program,
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type 'sh build.sh'. This should compile the program in the current directory.
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Then you will have a Make program that you can use for './make install', or
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whatever else.
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Some systems' Make programs cannot process the Makefile for GNU Make. If you
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get errors from your system's Make when building GNU Make, try using
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'build.sh' instead.
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GNU Make is free software. See the file COPYING for copying conditions.
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GNU Make is copyright by the Free Software Foundation. Copyright notices
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condense sequential years into a range; e.g. "1987-1994" means all years
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from 1987 to 1994 inclusive.
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Downloading
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-----------
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GNU Make can be obtained in many different ways. See a description here:
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http://www.gnu.org/software/software.html
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Documentation
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-------------
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GNU make is fully documented in the GNU Make manual, which is contained
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in this distribution as the file make.texinfo. You can also find
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on-line and preformatted (PostScript and DVI) versions at the FSF's web
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site. There is information there about ordering hardcopy documentation.
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http://www.gnu.org/
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http://www.gnu.org/doc/doc.html
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http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html
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Development
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-----------
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GNU Make development is hosted by Savannah, the FSF's online development
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management tool. Savannah is here:
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http://savannah.gnu.org
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And the GNU Make development page is here:
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http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/make/
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You can find most information concerning the development of GNU Make at
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this site.
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Bug Reporting
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-------------
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You can send GNU make bug reports to <bug-make@gnu.org>. Please see the
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section of the GNU make manual entitled 'Problems and Bugs' for
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information on submitting useful and complete bug reports.
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You can also use the online bug tracking system in the Savannah GNU Make
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project to submit new problem reports or search for existing ones:
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http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=make
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If you need help using GNU make, try these forums:
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help-make@gnu.org
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help-utils@gnu.org
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news:gnu.utils.help
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news:gnu.utils.bug
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Git Access
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----------
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The GNU make source repository is available via Git from the GNU Savannah Git
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server; look here for details:
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http://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=make
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Please note: you won't be able to build GNU make from Git without installing
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appropriate maintainer's tools, such as GNU m4, automake, autoconf, Perl, GNU
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make, and GCC.
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See the README.git file for instructions on how to build GNU make once these
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tools are available. We make no guarantees about the contents or quality of
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the latest code in the Git repository: it is not unheard of for code that is
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known to be broken to be checked in. Use at your own risk.
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System-specific Notes
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---------------------
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It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such
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that if you compile make with 'cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work
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correctly. It is said that using 'cc' without '-O' does work.
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The standard /bin/sh on SunOS 4.1.3_U1 and 4.1.4 is broken and cannot be
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used to configure GNU make. Please install a different shell such as
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bash or pdksh in order to run "configure". See this message for more
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information:
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http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-autoconf/2003-10/msg00190.html
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One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code
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to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and
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debug this code, you can do 'make check-loadavg' to see if it works
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properly on your system. (You must run 'configure' beforehand, but you
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need not build Make itself to run this test.)
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Another potential source of porting problems is the support for large
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files (LFS) in configure for those operating systems that provide it.
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Please report any bugs that you find in this area. If you run into
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difficulties, then as a workaround you should be able to disable LFS by
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adding the '--disable-largefile' option to the 'configure' script.
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On systems that support micro- and nano-second timestamp values and
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where stat(2) provides this information, GNU make will use it when
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comparing timestamps to get the most accurate possible result. However,
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note that many current implementations of tools that *set* timestamps do
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not preserve micro- or nano-second granularity. This means that "cp -p"
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and other similar tools (tar, etc.) may not exactly duplicate timestamps
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with micro- and nano-second granularity on some systems. If your build
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system contains rules that depend on proper behavior of tools like "cp
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-p", you should consider using the .LOW_RESOLUTION_TIME pseudo-target to
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force make to treat them properly. See the manual for details.
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Ports
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-----
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- See README.customs for details on integrating GNU make with the
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Customs distributed build environment from the Pmake distribution.
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- See README.VMS for details about GNU Make on OpenVMS.
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- See README.Amiga for details about GNU Make on AmigaDOS.
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- See README.W32 for details about GNU Make on Windows NT, 95, or 98.
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- See README.DOS for compilation instructions on MS-DOS and MS-Windows
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using DJGPP tools.
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A precompiled binary of the MSDOS port of GNU Make is available as part
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of DJGPP; see the WWW page http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ for more
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information.
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The Cygwin project maintains its own port of GNU make. That port may have
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patches which are not present in this version. If you are using Cygwin
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you should use their version of GNU make, and if you have questions about
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it you should start by asking on those mailing lists and forums.
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Please note there are two _separate_ ports of GNU make for Microsoft
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systems: a native Windows tool built with (for example) MSVC or Cygwin,
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and a DOS-based tool built with DJGPP. Please be sure you are looking
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at the right README!
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Copyright (C) 1988-2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This file is part of GNU Make.
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GNU Make is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
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terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
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Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
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version.
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GNU Make is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
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WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
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A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
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this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
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