[PATCH] Replace makefile fragments by use of $(eval ...)

Maxim Kuvyrkov maxim@codesourcery.com
Fri Jul 13 08:40:00 GMT 2012


On 13/07/2012, at 5:36 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:

> I don't really like this, and I don't think 2% is that compelling.
> 3.80 has a lot of questionable changes and eval is especially horrible.


Having glanced over the patch, the Makefile code looks neater and simpler after the patch.

I'm guessing that Andreas was trying to make Makefile machinery more understandable and easy to maintain, and that the speed-up was just a nice side-effect.

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Maxim Kuvyrkov
CodeSourcery / Mentor Graphics





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