"Paul D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >%% Philip Guenther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... > pg> The only other one which could legitimately benefit would be $(foreach), > >I made a change for $(call ...) which allows the function variable >(only) to be recursively expanded a large number of times before it >decides the recursion is infinite, and only when used as the >user-defined function in a $(call ...) function. It will be in the next >release.
Sweet! This should let me simplify the Makefile pieces that build the project I'm working on. Now if only GNU make had a tail recursive 'include' directive... >However, when I went to look at foreach, doing the same there was very >difficult (with $(call ...) you want to just special-case the >user-defined function variable, which must be a single variable; with >$(foreach ...) you want to special-case the body of the loop, which may >be very complex and consist of a number of variables). > >So, I'm going to leave it as just $(call ...) allowing this. That's fine. $(foreach) may be the only other function for which recursive expansion _could_ sense, but such code would be contrived compared to the recursive $(call) version, so restricting it to $(call) seems quite reasonable. Philip Guenther _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
