%% "Pawan Nrisimha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  pn> We're currently using the 3.79 version of GNUmake. If we now
  pn> upgrade to the 3.8 version,

There is no such thing as GNU make 3.8.  You  mean GNU make 3.80.

  pn> will this be backward compatible with thr makefiles we already
  pn> have.

There is a NEWS file shipped with GNU make that gives all the
user-visible changes between versions.  In general no, there are no
backward incompatibilities.

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