| This directory contains the 3.74.1 test release of GNU Make. |
| All bugs reported for previous test releases have been fixed. |
| Some bugs surely remain. |
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| For general building and installation instructions, see the file INSTALL. |
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| build the program, type `sh build.sh'. This should compile the program |
| in the current directory. Then you will have a Make program that you can |
| use for `make install', or whatever else. |
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| Some systems' Make programs are broken and cannot process the Makefile for |
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| It has been reported that the XLC 1.2 compiler on AIX 3.2 is buggy such |
| that if you compile make with `cc -O' on AIX 3.2, it will not work correctly. |
| It is said that using `cc' without `-O' does work. |
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| One area that is often a problem in configuration and porting is the code |
| to check the system's current load average. To make it easier to test and |
| debug this code, you can do `make check-loadavg' to see if it works |
| properly on your system. (You must run `configure' beforehand, but you |
| need not build Make itself to run this test.) |
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| See the file NEWS for what has changed since previous releases. |
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| GNU Make is fully documented in make.texinfo. See the section entitled |
| `Problems and Bugs' for information on submitting bug reports. |
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