make: *** virtual memory exhausted. Stop.

[Fabio Alemagna]

That happens when using a construct like this:

    define function
    target: very long dependency list
            whatever
    endef

and then passign that to $(eval) trough $(call). By reading the ml
archives I got to know that this is a pretty old bug, which should have
supposedly been fixed in a release which, at the time, was about to be
made. However it appears that there have no been any more releases since
then... Am I to assume that this bug will never be fixed (I read about the
patch, but I also read it doesn't work as it should)?

Fabio Alemagna