From b2635cb1efe650ea7f2f8ec14179fe3d390bc6db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:46:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the conversion to non-recursive make MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit * NEWS (Build-related): Mention the non-recursive make improvement. Improved by: Pádraig Brady --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ gnulib | 2 +- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ab205f565f..59a8510100 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Now, those tests are skipped with a useful diagnostic when the root tests are run without following the instructions in README. + We now build most directories using non-recursive make rules. I.e., + rather than running make in man/, lib/, src/, tests/, instead, the top + level Makefile.am includes a $dir/local.mk that describes how to build + the targets in the corresponding directory. Two directories remain + unconverted: po/, gnulib-tests/. One nice side-effect is that the more + accurate dependencies have eliminated a nagging occasional failure that + was seen when running parallel "make syntax-check". + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable] diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib index 3a9002d3cc..3ff028fd56 160000 --- a/gnulib +++ b/gnulib @@ -1 +1 @@ -Subproject commit 3a9002d3cc63da7110f133b1040d2d2b0aad8305 +Subproject commit 3ff028fd56c2aa14ce5e380e81b91e27a0bf8e2c -- 2.47.2