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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Markus Heidelberg
<markus.heidelberg@web.de> wrote:

> In the buildroot project (it consists of Makefiles) there a lots of
> those workarounds. There was a patch on the list to replace all
> $(strip $(subst ",,$(FOO))) with $(call strip_dquotes, $(FOO)), but
> $(call) is not allowed in git for compatibility reasons.

Hmm.  What compatibility reasons, and are they still applicable?

[If you're wondering why I'm revisiting this, I was looking through my
branches for anything outstanding and found this patch series there.]