When trying to clean up my office's make system, I began experimenting with techniques described in the latest O'Reilly GNU Make book. The $(eval $(call ...)) scheme looks promising.
However, I very soon ran into an 'eval' bug reported about thirty months ago (i.e., long eval strings caused gnu make to report exhausted virtual memory). This leads me to two questions: (1) are the latest gnu make features (e.g., eval) encouraged and stable, or are they considered experimental or fringe elements of gnu make? (2) it's a pain for me to rapidly update software in my office; so, if 'eval' is stable and recommended in the 3.81rc's, it would be valuable to know when 3.81 is to be released, or if the latest 3.81rc is likely to be functionally identical to the final release for common platforms (e.g., linux, nt, sun). Thanks. -- Don _______________________________________________ help-gnu-utils mailing list help-gnu-utils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-utils
