Relevant changes see ChangeLog for details:
Add support for ${.SUFFIXES} as read-only variable.
Fix memory leak in cond.c
Punt on write errors - ENOSPC etc.
Lots of code refactoring, rework to reduce memory allocations.
More unit-tests.
Lots of code refactoring, simplification and cleanup.
Lots of new unit-tests providing much higher code coverage.
All courtesy of rillig at netbsd.
Other significant changes:
o new read-only variable .SHELL which provides the path of the shell
used to run scripts (as defined by the .SHELL target).
o new debug option -dl: LINT mode, does the equivalent of := for all
variable assignments so that file and line number are reported for
variable parse errors.
From ChangeLog
2017-10-28 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@bad.crufty.net>
* VERSION: 20171028
Merge with NetBSD make, pick up
o main.c: ignore empty MAKEOBJDIR
* Makefile.config.in:
make @prefix@ @machine*@ and @default_sys_path@ defaults.
2017-10-05 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@bad.crufty.net>
* VERSION: 20171005
* unit-tests/dotwait.mk: redirect stderr through pipe for more
consistent result on some platforms.
2017-08-13 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@bad.crufty.net>
* machine.sh: entry for AIX
2017-08-12 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@bad.crufty.net>
* VERSION (_MAKE_VERSION): Move the setting of _MAKE_VERSION
to a file that can be included by configure as well as make.
This allows configure to set set _MAKE_VERSION in make-bootstrap.sh
2017-08-10 Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@bad.crufty.net>
* Makefile (_MAKE_VERSION): 20170810
Merge with NetBSD make, pick up
o meta.c: if target is in subdir we only need subdir name in
meta_name.
