- Support for command-line options mandated by POSIX
- Basic integration with
System.Console.GetOpt - Support for specifying targets on the command-line
- Support for specifying assignments on the command-line
- Support for the
-fflag - Support for all other flags
- Basic integration with
- Support for inference rules
- Parser support
- Handling of ".s2.s1" inference rules
- Respect and use `.SUFFIXES" (see special targets below)
- Handling of ".s1" inference rules
- Tests
- Support for command prefixes (
-,@,+)- Preliminary support for
@and- - Support for
- - Support for
.SILENT/.IGNORE/…(see special targets below) - Tests
- Preliminary support for
- Proper support for escaped newlines in commands and assignments
- Support for macro assignment operators other than
:= - Support for macro expansions of the form
$(string1:subst1=[subst2])- Support for nested expansions in
string1
- Support for nested expansions in
- Support for special targets (e.g.
.PHONY) - Support for internal macros (e.g.
$@,$%, …) - Support for default rules (e.g. for C compilation)
- Support for environment variables (e.g.
MAKEFLAGS) - Support for libraries (prerequisites with parentheses)