NEW features of smake-1.2.3:

-	smake now optimizes command execution and no longer passes simple
	commands to the shell. On UNIX, this speeds up execution by just
	one percent, but on slow systems like Win32, this results in a
	bigger performance win (aprox. 25% of the total wall clock time
	on a Cygwin system).

-	Commands that start with a simple "echo" command have the echo
	command executed inline by smake. This helps to avoid to call the
	shell for typical commands in the schily makefilesystem.

-	Added a symlink to libschily/stdio/flush.c to get flush() for "echo"
	into the bootstrap "psmake".

-	If the remaining commandline does not contain shell meta characters,
	the command is called via execlp() instead of the shell.

-	If the remaining commandline does not contain a command, fake
	success, but do not try to call the empty commandline.

-	If the environment FORCE_SHELL is present or the Makefile contains
	the special target .FORCE_SHELL:, smake always calls commands via
	the shell.

-	Try to work around an imprudent change in the file windef.h from
	Cygwin-1.7.17 (Autumn 2012) related to the type BOOL that makes 
	windefs.h from the recent Cygwin no longer compatible to the 
	original file from Microsoft.

	Thanks to Alain Hoang, Thomas Plank and others for reporting and
	help with getting a fix for the problem named above


-	The make program specific configuration files for the Schily Makefilesystem
	RULES/mk-.id (for SunPro make), RULES/mk-smake.id RULES/mk-gmake.id
	now include definitions for the macros:

	SPACE		A single space character (' ')
	NUMBER_SIGN	The ASCII number sing ('#')

	Note that the POSIX standard otherwise requires the make program 
	to be unable to have the '#' appear in non-comment sections of
	Makefiles.

-	The Schily makefilesystem now supports CC++_COM for all platforms to
	allow to overwrite the low level command for the C++-compiler.

-	The smake program now may be compiled to enforce "bosh" (our portable
	Bourne Shell) as the default SHELL. Note that you need the Bourne Shell
	sources that are part of the "schily" project collection:

	ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily/

	Using "bosh" fixes some bugs with signal handling on bash based systems
	and increases performace e.g. on Cygwin.

	compile using "smake COPTX=-DUSE_BOSH" to enable this feature.
	Note that you need to have a working bosh installed on your system
	before "configure" was run. So if you like to swith to that
	new feature, first compile/install all programs from this source
	bundle, then call "./.clean" and compile again.

-	If you have a working (recent) bosh on your system, you may call:

	PATH="/opt/schily/bin:$PATH" CONFIG_SHELL=/opt/schily/bin/sh smake

	to enforce "bosh" instead of /bin/sh for executing "configure"
	If /bin/sh is e.g. bash, this speeds up the "configure" performance
	by aprox. 30% on Cygwin.



TODO:
	Smake would need to implement an undocumented feature from 
	historical UNIX make implementations that is used by Xorg
	at one place:

	target: *.o
		do-something-with *.o

	Which expands *.o from the filesystem. Meanwhile, use 
	smake -N to compile Xorg.

After pattern expansion has been implemented, smake-1.2 final
will be released.

P.P.S.: As Xorg changed it's build system, we may delay this
feature to something past 1.2-final.
	


WARNING: Do not use 'winzip' to extract the tar file!
	Winzip cannot extract symbolic links correctly.

Joerg