From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 19:46:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [PoC] coccinelle: make Coccinelle-related make targets more fine-grained
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQSg=MBB7zp5bx5Z6tep89FaqNfTXV0tATRRG3WAPn2MQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180802180155.GD15984@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 2:02 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:55:22PM +0200, SZEDER Gábor wrote:
> >     This approach uses $(eval), which we haven't used in any of our
> >     Makefiles yet.  I wonder whether it's portable enough.  And it's
> >     ugly and complicated.
>
> I looked into this a long time ago for another set of Makefile patches I
> was considering. $(eval) was added to GNU make in 3.80, released in
> 2002. Which is probably fine by now.

For the record, MacOS developer tools are stuck at GNU make 3.81 (from 2006).