Re: make 3.80 eval/variable_buffer bug

2004-06-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
I'm confident this is an instance of bug # 1517, which has been fixed in the source and for which there is a patch on the Savannah site (attached to this bug). When you say that it appears that "the CVS source doesn't appear to fix this issue" is this because you've tried it and it doesn't, or jus

make 3.80 eval/variable_buffer bug

2004-06-30 Thread Craig Ruff
It appears that make 3.80 is not reentrant in the use of variable_expand_string/variable_buffer_output and the static variables variable_buffer_length and variable_buffer. I tripped across this while using $(eval ...) in a make file. If the argument to $(eval ...) is large enough (more than 20