It's clear that this change causes too many problems to be made
without warning. Revert the change disallowing conditional lines to
start with TAB.
Instead, generate warnings whenever a directive line begins with a
TAB character. Make this change for all directives, not just
conditional directives: define, undefine, export, unexport, vpath,
load, include, etc.
* NEWS: Update the backward-compatibility warning.
* src/read.c (eval): Track whether the line starts with a TAB.
If so then whenever we recognize a directive, emit a warning.
Revert the previous change for this bug.
(parse_var_assignment): Accept a file location if the line begins
with TAB; show a warning if we discover a directive.
(conditional_line): Warn about lines starting with TAB.
* tests/scripts/...: Add tests to verify warnings for initial TAB.
Avoid Emacs local variable settings to disable whitespace cleanup,
by creating markup tokens for TAB characters (#TAB#) and space
characters (#SPACE#) (for end-of-line spaces). Modify all the
tests that use TABs to use the new markup. This requires changing
some old-fashioned tests to use the modern run_make_test(). Also
remove some of the comments regarding test numbers now that the
framework keeps track.
Ensure that we correctly skip the entirety of a macro or function
reference when searching for the "," separator in an ifeq/ifneq
conditional, including using "$," and also "${foo,bar}". Note that
this change means that parenthesis OTHER than those used for variable
expansion are not considered special, any longer.
* NEWS: Announce the change.
* src/read.c (conditional_line): Skip variable references when looking
for "," and ensure that we match closing parens/braces properly.
* tests/scripts/features/conditionals: Add tests for this behavior.
* NEWS: Mention this change.
* src/read.c (eval): Check for ignoring for any line even if not
in a rule context.
* tests/scripts/features/conditionals: Write new tests.
- Apply a fix for the "thundering herd" problem when using "-j -l".
This also fixes bug #4693.
- Fix bug #7257: allow functions as ifdef arguments
- Fix bug #4518: make sure we print all double-colon rules with -p.
- Upgrade to autconf 2.58/automake 1.8/gettext 0.13.1
- Various doc cleanups, etc.
* Never use "touch" in make rules; it breaks on most sub-second
supporting systems. Use echo "" > $@ instead.
* Forgot to close test makefiles before using them!
All the above worked fine on Linux but failed miserably on Solaris.
