On Sat, 2016-05-28 at 16:09 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> If make's own stdout/stderr refers to a PTY, make could create PTYs in
> place of pipes, collect output that way, and synchronize it to its own
> stdout/stderr as it does now.

Just for clarity: GNU make doesn't use pipes to collect output, it uses
IO redirection to temporary files.

I don't see any serious issue with this proposal, as long as it's
appropriately managed for portability.

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