On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:
>
> > in general, it's a good idea, but the problem, is, it gives a lot more
> > freedom without any real gain. It only allows one to write Makefiles that
> > use your private choice of shell, and you can do anything you want, I
> > think, as it is now.
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> The door's already open. Go to src/usr.bin/make.
I didn't say what you asked for was hard, I was against making the
addition of lots of extra complications in Makefiles too easy. To tell
you the truth, I would find your idea really neat as a programmer, UNTIL I
had to maintain some of the inevitable garbage that it generated among
some of the less disciplined minds.
That said, I'm not dead set against it, I was just giving my take. I
think, overall, it's going to hugely complicate makefile maintenance, but
if you get approval, go for it!
> There's GNU make for that, anyway.
Guess why I don't like Gmake?
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