On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:44 PM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 04, 2020 at 09:33:51PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 10:58 AM Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > This is our first use of eval in the Makefile, but that goes back to GNU > > > make v3.80, which is from 2002. I think that should be OK. > > > > Upon reading this, I was worried that it might trip up Mac OS which > > has (often very) old versions of tools, but it's alright in this case, > > as Apple ships GNU 'make' 3.81 from 2006. > > They're certainly good at keeping old versions of things around. :) I > wonder if it's due to a switch from GPLv2 to v3. My understanding is > that's why they'll keep bash 3 around forever, and the GPLv3 was > published in 2007, between GNU make 3.81 and 3.82. That is my understanding, as well. > Anyway, I think we're good, but thanks for double-checking. History repeats itself[1]. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/git/20180802212930.GB32538@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
