Re: make-3.80: `eval' bug

[Toomas Rosin]

You <address@hidden> wrote:
   Your fix is not correct; note that the documentation for $(eval ...)
   says:

     The result of the `eval' function is always the empty string;
     thus, it can be placed virtually anywhere in a makefile without
     causing syntax errors.

   Thus, there is no need (and in fact, no desire!) to keep the results of
   the expansion of $(eval ...), so there's no need to track 'o" etc.

Well, I would say that my fix *was* correct (after all, it made `eval'
return an empty string, which it did not before), and I even thought
of using same paragraph to support it myself.  But then again, not
having to track `o' is certainly cleaner.  Will test your patch right
away.

Thank you,
Toomas.