Re: [Automake-NG] [PATCH 00/11] Several changes to parallel-tests support

[Akim Demaille]

Le 9 mai 2012 à 16:42, Bob Friesenhahn a écrit :

> On Wed, 9 May 2012, Akim Demaille wrote:
>> 
>> Also, I don't know if it's part of your specs for automake-ng,
>> but, performance-wise *and* from the point of view of semantics,
>> *and* of syntax, I am very fond of this new feature of GNU Make 3.82:
>> 
>> * New special target: .ONESHELL instructs make to invoke a single instance
> 
> If it can be believed, Ubtuntu GNU/Linux is still providing GNU Make 3.81 
> Copyright (C) 2006.  I see build behavior differences between 3.81 and 3.82 
> (3.82 is better).
> 
> It baffles me why 3.82 is not everywhere already.

Yep, I saw that too.  I also observed places where 3.81
dies, and 3.82 builds fine.  Actually for a project I worked
on, we required 3.82 because 3.81 was too hard to please.