[PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the conversion to non-recursive make

[Jim Meyering]

Here's a NEWS entry for the conversion to non-recursive make:

>From c8ed1909e1e5fd4154681be58674c670730dc926 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <address@hidden>
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:46:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] doc: NEWS: mention the conversion to non-recursive make

* NEWS (Build-related): Mention the non-recursive make improvement.
---
 NEWS | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ab205f5..96b3e9f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -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 check".
+

 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.19 (2012-08-20) [stable]

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