From: Samuel Bronson <naesten@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 23:37:01 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Makefile: add commented out 's for Emacs here, too
Message-ID: <CAJYzjmcbQVgRk9pjyWSqaDPz6=kFQ9spE14Bq5aG4dnuo-t=oA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200905310001.44532.markus.heidelberg@web.de>

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Markus Heidelberg
<markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:

> In the buildroot project (it consists of Makefiles) there a lots of
> those workarounds. There was a patch on the list to replace all
> $(strip $(subst ",,$(FOO))) with $(call strip_dquotes, $(FOO)), but
> $(call) is not allowed in git for compatibility reasons.

Hmm.  What compatibility reasons, and are they still applicable?

[If you're wondering why I'm revisiting this, I was looking through my
branches for anything outstanding and found this patch series there.]