Re: make-3.80: `eval' bug

2002-10-25 Thread Paul D. Smith
I think I'm going to make it 3.81. I'm tired of the extra version on the end: it orders incorrectly when people look up versions on the FTP site and too many people pick the older version instead of the newer one :). I don't plan on releasing it immediately; I only meant that I planned to fix it

Re: make-3.80: `eval' bug

2002-10-25 Thread Henning Makholm
Scripsit "Paul Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've also found another bug: if you use $(eval ...) inside a conditional > statement it fails! Doh! I'll fix this shortly. If that means that a release 3.80.1 is planned, would it be possible to add constant variables $(GNUMAKE_VERSION_MAJOR) and $(GN

Re: make-3.80: `eval' bug

2002-10-25 Thread Paul Smith
Hi; After looking at the code I've determined that passing the "o" is not sufficiently safe. There are sections of the eval() function which call variable_expand(), which will reset the variable_buffer setup. So if you put any of those in your expansion text you'll be sad. So, I'm going with m