Re: Deferred expansion and computed rules and rant about make bug

[Mike Shal]

> However the problem with eval is still a problem for me. Since I am doing a
> non-recursive make I want to do the following:
> 
>   $(foreach DIR,$(DIRS),$(eval include $(SUBDIR_MAKEFILE)))
> 
> Which of course gives me the virtual memory exhausted bug.
> 

Without knowing what DIRS and SUBDIR_MAKEFILE are, I'm not exactly
sure what you're trying to do. I use a non-recursive make but I don't
use $(eval). Is there a reason you can't just include the files
without the eval?

DIRS = foo bar
MAKEFILES = $(addsuffix /Makefile,$(DIRS))
include $(MAKEFILES)

-Mike