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Re: basic problem with eval


From: Johan Bezem
Subject: Re: basic problem with eval
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2006 05:46:54 +0100
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Eval is not supported in 3.79.1. It starts at 3.80.
IIRC in 3.79.1, $(eval is considered an undefined user-defined function, 
expanded to nothing.
That would explain your results.

HTH,

Johan

Xavier Marichal wrote:

Hi!
sorry to annoy everyone with such a stupid problem, but I definitely don't understand the way eval works... The example of the gnumake manual (section 8.8) does provide a strange output with my version of gmake (3.79.1):
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