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@@ -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 syntax-check".
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable]