Re: rb5: remove combinatorial explosion patch

[Tom Tromey]

>>>>> "Richard" == Richard Boulton <address@hidden> writes:

Richard> The patch removes the combinatorial explosion (in terms of
Richard> memory footprint and Makefile.in size) which currently exists
Richard> when a _SOURCES variable is defined in terms of several
Richard> conditionally defined variables.  It does this by defining
Richard> the _OBJECTS variable in terms of a parallel set of
Richard> conditional variables.

I think this is awesome and very important.  But I'd also prefer to
put it off until post-1.5.  I'm concerned about introducing too many
more new things right now.

What if we make a new branch after your other change is checked in?
Then we can do 1.5 development on that branch -- bug fixes, whatever
final testing and prereleases we need, etc.  On the trunk we'll add
new stuff.  This is what I would prefer.  How about you?

I haven't read this patch yet.
Does it work with $(var:foo=bar) ?

Tom