Re: [bug #35485] New $(.MFDIR) built-in variable

2012-02-27 Thread Paul Smith
On Sun, 2012-02-26 at 21:58 -0800, Howard Chu wrote: You've just described an O(n^2) behavior. This is definitely a drag; but it really depends on how heavily you make use of macros. Well, in this case it depends on how heavily you make use of APPEND operations on macros. Is it worth adding a

[bug #35485] New $(.MFDIR) built-in variable

2012-02-27 Thread David Boyce
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #35485 (project make): I'm not sure how much more specific I can be than saying that it's just shorthand for $(abspath $(dir $(lastword $(MAKEFILE_LIST but let me try to elaborate. First, the variability of .MFDIR would be precisely the same as that of MAKEFILE_LIST