Relevant/interesting changes (see ChangeLog for more):
o variables like .newline and .MAKE.{GID,PID,PPID,UID}
should be read-only.
o .[NO]READONLY: for control of read-only variables
o .SYSPATH: for controlling the path searched for makefiles
o allow for white-space between command specifiers @+-
o add more details to warning 'Extra targets ignored'
o make.1: sync list of built-in variables with reality
sort list of built-in variables
o cond.c: add more details to error message for numeric comparison
o job.c: fix handling of null bytes in output
o Allow .break to terminate a .for loop early
o var.c: fix out-of-bounds errors when parsing
o fix exit status for '-q' (since 1994)
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.
