On Sun, 2021-11-28 at 08:24 +0100, Jouke Witteveen wrote: > On the user side, strcmp could now probably be defined something like > $(and $(intcmp $(words $1),$(words $2)),$(findstring x$1x,x$2x))
I don't think this is equivalent since a putative strcmp would also do greater / less than comparison (like intcmp does). Of course that leads into all sorts of i18n / locale issues, but likely we'd just punt (like C's strcmp does) and use ASCII ordering; we've already taken that route elsewhere. You can probably gin up something that works using $(sort ...) but it seems tricky. Anyway I'm not suggesting this be added right now but just keeping options open for the future.
