Here's a NEWS entry for the conversion to non-recursive make: >From c8ed1909e1e5fd4154681be58674c670730dc926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering <[email protected]> Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:46:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the conversion to non-recursive make
* NEWS (Build-related): Mention the non-recursive make improvement. --- NEWS | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index ab205f5..96b3e9f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -62,6 +62,14 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- Now, those tests are skipped with a useful diagnostic when the root tests are run without following the instructions in README. + We now build most directories using non-recursive make rules. I.e., + rather than running make in man/, lib/, src/, tests/, instead, the top + level Makefile.am includes a $dir/local.mk that describes how to build + the targets in the corresponding directory. Two directories remain + unconverted: po/, gnulib-tests/. One nice side-effect is that the more + accurate dependencies have eliminated a nagging occasional failure that + was seen when running parallel "make check". + * Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable] -- 1.7.12.503.g5976753
