> 2. "it's about ten zillion times harder to use Make as a scripting language >> than to run a script to handle an edge case, so leave all that fancy >> stuff >> in gmake alone, 'kay". >> > > Are you saying one shouldn't use fine features such as Lazy Evaluation of > Variables, Looping Facilities such as $(foreach), Powerful Ways of > Manipulating > Text (I'm quoting `info make' - that's it's title to functions such as > $(firstword)), and the Advanced Macro Definitions (reverse = $2 $1)? I can't > imagine a reason for such hostility.
The following tangent is not so much a software hate than a people hate: people using gmake features for no good reason should be sentenced to port any GNU configure file into VMS' DCL, or possibly into VMS REXX. >
