From: Paul Smith Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2019 15:08:15 +0000 (-0400) Subject: * NEWS: Fix incorrect notes. X-Git-Tag: 4.2.91~36 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=85cdc9e9ae340ec094f275c568b18ac0e0377ec4;p=thirdparty%2Fmake.git * NEWS: Fix incorrect notes. --- diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 8f508910..ccfda3e9 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=108&set * WARNING: Backward-incompatibility! On Linux, and any other systems that provide a /proc/loadavg with similar - syntax, the -l/--load-average option will use the contents of that file to - determine how many jobs are running at any given instant, and compare that + syntax, the -l/--load-average option will consult that file to + determine how many jobs are at any given instant, and compare that value to the load value requested. This allows usage such as "-j -lN" for N-processor systems without fear of overload. Patch provided by Sven C. Dack @@ -59,11 +59,10 @@ http://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=108&set * Makefiles can now specify the '-j' option in their MAKEFLAGS variable and this will cause make to enable that parallelism mode. -* GNU make will now use pthread_spawn() on systems where it is available. - It will select POSIX_SPAWN_USEVFORK where that is available. If you prefer - to use fork/exec even on systems where pthread_spawn() is present, you can - use the --disable-pthread-spawn option to configure. - Aron Barath provided the basic implementation. +* GNU make will now use posix_spawn() on systems where it is available. + If you prefer to use fork/exec even on systems where posix_spawn() is + present, you can use the --disable-posix-spawn option to configure. Aron + Barath provided the basic implementation. * Error messages printed when invoking non-existent commands have been cleaned up and made consistent.