Hi, coreutils has very commonly used linux utilities. People probably know some commands from coreutiles much earlier than knowing GNU Make. I feel that it is inconvenient and confusing that make define a set (like basename) of similar but different commands from coreutils. Every time I use these commands in Make, I'll have to look up the manual.
I don't quite know the history of make on these commands and for what reason these command are defined as they are right now. But I'm feel that probably it is better to change the definition of these commands so that they are consistent with coreutils. In case that people worry about the backward compatibility issues, these new definitions can be supported by specifying a command line option to GNU Make. As time passes by, this command line option can become the default and eventually the old definition of these commands can be removed from GNU Make. -- Regards, Peng _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
