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Update NEWS docs.
Enhance the manual to use automake version.texi, and use the canonical
FSF copyright features and statement.
Some $(realpath ...) tests won't work on Windows; leave them out
The jobserver filedescriptor test might fail if some FDs are reserved,
so for now comment out that check.

Fix a file descriptor leak with make re-exec while using the jobserver.
Update some release information.

Revert a fix for $? including non-existent files as it shows a bug
in the Linux kernel build.  Give them a release to fix this.
Add some changes from Eli Z. for Windows changes.

Handle SHELL set on the command line properly for windows.

Revert intermediate file free code.
Suppress some warnings in VMS builds.

GNITS check doesn't think we have updated it (only scans the first 15 lines).

- Fix handling of special targets like .SUFFIX for VMS insensitive targets.
- Don't make temporary batch files for -n.  Make sure batch files are created
  in text mode.

list.  Fixes Savannah bug #15757.

expanding, and use that info when generating error messages instead of
the file info, where appropriate.

Added new file strcache.c to various non-UNIX makefiles and build scripts.

  Savannah bug #15182, but not much uses it yet.  Coming shortly.
- Added short-circuiting $(and ..) and $(or ...) functions.

Rewrite large chunks of the "Commands" section of the manual to better
describe then backslash-newline handling, the SHELL variable, etc.

Markus Maurhart.

- Updates to make.texi and make.1 and other documentation
- Some VMS patches
- Fix minor bugs reported on the mailing list and from Debian.

instead of leaving it "initialized" by whatever garbage happened to be on
the heap.

Use rm -f instead of rm in the test scripts.  Fixes bug #15085.

pattern rule also makes.

double-colon entries only if it is the last one to be updated.

a variable ('simple', 'recursive', or 'undefined').

of directories that make searches for included makefiles.

Try to avoid extraneous rebuilds of template files.

I decided this feature was too impacting to make the permanent default
behavior.  This set of changes makes the default behavior of make the
old behavior (no second expansion).  If you want second expansion, you
must define the .SECONDEXPANSION: special target before the first target
that needs it.

This set of changes ONLY fixes explicit and static pattern rules to work
like this.  Implicit rules still have second expansion enabled all the
time: I'll work on that next.

Note that there is still a backward-incompatibility: now to get the old
SysV behavior using $$@ etc. in the prerequisites list you need to set
.SECONDEXPANSION: as well.

the bug-make mailing list.

Fix Savannah bug # 14527: remember to free temporary line constructor
memory if the line is empty.

This should help the tests run more accurately on Windows (hopefully...)

Fix some regression tests to (hopefully) work better on Windows.