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diff --git a/dmake/NEWS b/dmake/NEWS new file mode 100755 index 000000000000..bff5353be7bc --- /dev/null +++ b/dmake/NEWS @@ -0,0 +1,316 @@ +News file for the dmake version that is hosted on the OpenOffice.org +cvs. #i<number># denote issues tracked by the OpenOffice.org issue tracking +system, see <http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html>. + +Version 4.12 +============ + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i83540# Add parallel building mode, see the MULTI PROCESSING section in +the dmake man page, for native W32 dmake (MSVC 6, and newer and MinGW) +versions. + +Version 4.11 +============ + +Yuri Dario (ydario@openoffice.org) +#i81855, CWS os2port01# Port dmake to OS/2. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i81252# Add a new control macro SHELLCMDQUOTE that can be used to add +additional characters before and after the command string if the recipe is +executed using a shell. This macro is used to avoid problems with quoting +when using cmd.exe or command.com. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i81296, i64572# Improve dependency handling of prerequisites. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i80687, i66751# Allow the use of .PHONY for %-targets. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i80010, i80009# Fix handling of quoted filenames for :1 :b :d :e :f +and :i macro expansions. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i78776# Add a new function macro $(normpath[,para] data) and a new macro +extension to normalise the given data or macro content. The normalization +is done element-wise (whitespace separated) on the given data. Quotes can +be used to normalize filenames that contain whitespace characters. +On cygwin the result honors the setting of .WINPATH to determine the output +format. If the optional parameter para is given for the function macro its +expanded value is used to override the .WINPATH setting for the output. + +Version 4.10 (skipped) +====================== + +This number was skipped to avoid confusion with Version 4.1, patch level 0 +which identified itself as "Version 4.10, PL 0". + +Version 4.9 +=========== + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i74700# Add a new special macro OOODMAKEMODE that is used to toggle +OOo build specific behavior. If OOODMAKEMODE is set (i.e. it begins with y) +a possible leading ./ of a path will no longer be removed during target +normalization. + + +Version 4.8 +=========== + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i73499# Add new .WINPATH attribute to generate Windows style paths (with +regular slashes) instead of the default cygwin style (POSIX) paths for +dmake's dynamic macros. + +This attribute is specific for cygwin dmake executables and non-cygwin +environments ignore this attribute. This feature can be used to create DOS +style path parameters for native W32 programs from dynamic macros. + +The windows style paths use regular slashes ('/') instead of the usual +windows backslash ('\') as directory separator to avoid quoting problems +(It still is a cygwin dmake feature!) and cygwin as well as native windows +programs should have no problems using this (c:/foo/bar) path +representation. + +The affected macros are $@, $*, $>, $?, $<, $&, $^ and $(PWD), $(MAKEDIR) +and $(TMD). + +Examples: + Content of $(PWD) without .WINPATH (default): /cygdrive/c/temp + + Content of $(PWD) with .WINPATH set: c:/temp + + +Version 4.7 +=========== + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i71422# Add @@ as a new recipe line property. This new property is a +stronger version of the already existing @ recipe property. The recipe +line and the output (stdout and stderr) of the executed recipe are suppressed +and *NOT* shown on the terminal. +Note: Previously the second @ sign was ignored, that means that using this +new feature doesn't break backwards compatibility but the command output +is naturally not suppressed in older versions. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i70210# Dmake now works correctly with empty dynamic prerequisites. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i70168# Improve dmakes handling of literal $ characters in target and +prerequisite filenames. This was not working before and is working now +but the use of literal $ characters in filenames is still strongly +discouraged. See the man page for details. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i69742# Normalize the pathnames of targets and prerequisites to the shortest +(or most natural, see below for the cygwin case) representation. +Now "./foo", "bar/../foo" and foo are recognized as the same file. + +For cygwin this allows the use of target and prerequisite names with DOS +like pathnames with drive letters (with / and \ as possible path seperators) +and cygwin POSIX pathnames. As the internal format uses cygwin's natural +POSIX representation runtime macros will result in POSIX paths. + +Version 4.6 +=========== + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i67589# Implement the internal dmake commands noop and echo. These commands +were already existing for the native Windows version but only partially +documented. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i67166# Issue a warning when a previously unset macro (i.e. assumed to be +empty) is used and later set to a different value. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i66567# Issue a warning when .SUFFIXES is used. This special target had no +special meaning (anymore?) and was always (at least since version 4.2) +ignored. + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i67025# Fix a bug that was introduced in dmake 4.5 and led dmake to falsely +issue an error if a %-target was defined with the .SILENT attribute and dmake +was started with the -vr (included in -v) verbose flag. + +Version 4.5 +=========== + +Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i66385# Fix the handling of .<suffix> targets. Always treat these targets +as meta targets regardless of the AUGMAKE (-A) status. Previously this was +enabled when the AUGMAKE was *not* set to 'yes' or the -A switch was given. + +#i66083# We now stop with an error if AUGMAKE meta targets and regular +targets are used in one rule definition. As the syntax of these target +definitions is slightly different this hints to an error in the makefile, +most probably a misspelled attribute or special target. + +#i48087#, #i64869# The parsing of %-target definitions was fixed and +enhanced. Prior to dmake 4.5 only one %-target per target-definition worked +reliably, now this works well, but to help projects that still use older +versions a warning was added. + +It's not very nice to issue a warning for something that works now but +didn't before. This was only done to aid development and will probably +be removed in future versions. + +There was, and still is, that for a bug in dmake for %-targets with more +than one (not indirect) prerequisite only the first prerequisite is used. +This will be fixed in future versions but until this happens we issue a +warning that prerequisites are ignored. + +#i65122# The :| rule operator was handled differently from what the man +page said. The man page was adapted to reflect reality. Changing dmakes +behavior to match the man page would have introduced a lot of compatibility +issues. + +Version 4.4 +=========== + +2006/02/03 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i61170# Fix the TMD macro. Up to now the TMD macro appended a directory +separator if it ended in "..", but most of the time it was not set correctly +at all and/or without a trailing slash. +Note: If your application relies on TMD please check the dmake manual page +for its definition and fix your makefiles if needed. + +2006/02/01 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i60948# Add -m option family to generate timing information for targets +and/or recipes. + +2005/09/19 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i53148# Fix $(shell ...) macro picking up the output of earlier +recipe lines in parallel builds. +#i54766# Ensure that all previous recipe lines to a recipe +line containing a $(shell ...) macro have finished before executing +the macro in parallel builds. + +2005/06/01 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i39248# Add a testsuite to test some dmake features (only for autotools +builds). Start the tests with "make check". + +2005/04/21 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i47851# Increase the version number to 4.4-cvs and slightly rearrange the +output of "dmake -V". +Remove the hard-coded (in autotools builds) OS macro. It had the wrong value +to be usable with the startup/*.mk and is not mentioned in the man page. +Clean up configure.in and friends. + +2005/04/20 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i43310# Fix percent (%) rules to recognize prerequisites that are defined +with the multiple target rule operator (::). +This implicitly fixes the similar problem for .<suffix>.<suffix> targets. + +2005/04/16 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i46987# Fix the documentation of the $(mktmp ...) function macro. This is +not necessarily a new feature as the macro works this way since dmake was +imported into the OpenOffice.org cvs but mentioning it here might help users +of dmake upgrading from very old versions. + +Add the "map escape codes" $(...:m) macro expansion that allows to expand +escape codes in macros. It can also be used to reproduce the former (pre +OpenOffice.org cvs) $(mktmp ...) behavior. + +2005/04/10 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i43252# Introduce the macro ABSMAKECMD that's value for a native Windows +dmake executable (compiled with MS Visual C++ or MinGW) is the absolute +filename and NULL for other operating systems or dmake build with other +compilers. +If DMAKEROOT is not changed and only for native Windows dmake versions the +value of DMAKEROOT now defaults to "$(ABSMAKECMD:d)startup". +This allows to use the startup files from the startup directory from the +same location where the dmake.exe is located. + +2005/04/08 Steve Hay (shay@openoffice.org) +#i43241# Fix build problems with VC++ (in non-OOo environment) and fix +the dmake makefiles so that dmake can rebuild itself (VC++ only). + +2005/03/14 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i44959# Fix problems when a continued line is followed by an empty +or comment line. + +2005/03/13 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i37053# Fix function macro problems with continued lines. + +2004/11/23 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i37491# Predefine dmake macro containing one space (SPACECHAR). + +2004/11/21 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i36027# Improve function macro parameter parsing. + +Version 4.3 +=========== + +2004/10/07 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i34746# Fix timestamp of phony targets with prerequisites. + +2004/07/11 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i31255# Add verbose recipe echoing option (-vr). + +2004/07/06 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i30779# Fix to allow dmake to echo recipe lines when inference is used +to create files that are to be read by .INCLUDE. + +2004/04/01 Michael Meeks (mmeeks@openoffice.org) +#i27319#, #i27981# Don't handle environment variables that begin with a +'!', they are used by Cygwin internally and confuse dmake. + +2004/01/09 Dan Williams (fa@openoffice.org) +#i17992# Allows the nesting of expressions and a much more complex syntax +for dmake. It is now possible to nest expressions with () and any +combination of || and &&. +Example: +.IF (("$(OS)"=="MACOSX"&&"$(COM)"=="GCC")||"$(OS)"=="LINUX") && "$(GUIBASE)"=="unx" +... +.ENDIF + +2003/10/19 Ken Foskey (waratah@openoffice.org) +#i20504# Correct processing of .LIBRARY targets. + +2003/10/08 Chris Halls (haggai@openoffice.org) +#i7800# Fix tempnam security problem. + +2003/03/08 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i10910# Use the build-in tempnam function for MS VC6. + +2003/03/05 Volker Quetschke (vq@openoffice.org) +#i11861# Switch to newer autotools autoconf 2.5x and automake 1.5 and +add MinGW and MSVC to the configure buildable targets. + +2002/10/11 Ken Foskey (waratah@openoffice.org) +Fix the "lost a child" problem. (Part II) + +2002/10/04 Ken Foskey (waratah@openoffice.org) +Rework the configure process. + +2002/04/10 Hans-Joachim Lankenau (hjs@openoffice.org) +Don't search INCLUDEDIRS if the filename to be included starts at fs-root. + +2001/05/29 Patrick Luby (pluby@openoffice.org) +Added forceful exit to avoid infinite loop that sometimes occurs when +there is a fatal error. Lost a child problem. (Part I) + +Version 4.2 +=========== +(Note, the dmake -V output was not changed and still said +"Version 4.10, PL 0". This probably should have been 4.1) + +2001/04/20 Martin Hollmichel (mh@openoffice.org) +First autoconfiscation of dmake. + +2001/02/13 Hans-Joachim Lankenau (hjs@openoffice.org) +Fix for leaving tmpfiles when building group targets. + +2000/09/22 Jens-Heiner Rechtien (hr@openoffice.org) +Initial import of dmake into OpenOffice.org cvs + +before 2000/09/22 ? +Add smaller/greater arithmetic for .IF conditions. + +1999/03/18 Hans-Joachim Lankenau (hjs@openoffice.org) +Implement boolean expression "or". |