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GNU Make 4.0 Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the onward-and-upward dept.

jones_supa writes "A new major version of the classic GNU Make software has been released. First of all, Make 4.0 has integration support for GNU Guile Scheme. Guile is the extension system of the GNU project that is a Scheme programming language implementation and now in the Make world will be the embedded extension language. 4.0 also features a new 'output-sync' option, 'trace-enables' for tracing of targets, a 'none' flag for the 'debug' argument, and the 'job server' and .ONESHELL features are now supported under Windows. There are also new assignment operators, a new function for writing to files, and other enhancements. It's been reported that Make 4.0 also has more than 80 bug-fixes. More details can be found from their release announcement on the mailing list."

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  1. GNU Guile, eh? by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 2, Funny

    I myself prefer GNU Ryu and GNU Ken, but a lot of people seem to do well with GNU Chun Li.

  2. Re:Me gusta! by dyingtolive · · Score: 4, Funny

    Any time I want to slack off or if I need some more time to work on something useful rather than the pointless tasks delegated in the name of excess micromanagement, I just kick off a kernel build on three or four different boxes and tell my boss I'm testing a client issue.

    You say pointless, but I think what you mean is ESSENTIAL.

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  3. Re:I'm ready to replace Make by Darinbob · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have an Italian compiler. Some times it tells me "your code, she is baroque on line 13".