Jean,

On Sunday, 12 March 2006 14:56, Jean Delvare wrote:
> 2002-07-07  Paul D. Smith  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> (...)
>         * function.c (func_eval): Create a new make function, $(eval
>         ...).  Expand the arguments, put them into a buffer, then invoke
>         eval_buffer() on the resulting string.
> (...)
>
> So I take it that earlier versions of GNU make, including 3.79.1, and
> other incarnations of make, don't know about the $(eval ...) construct.
> We are using this construct twice in our Makefile:

good catch, thank you!

> This must explain why the pseudo-symlinks cannot be created with make
> 3.79.1. Andreas, do you have any idea how we can replace this
> construct? I don't.

It can probably be done relatively easily by recursively calling make. Just 
now I simply don't have the time for looking into this, though.

Cheers,
Andreas


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