> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:47:14 -0700 > From: Jonathan Baccash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > By mundane tasks, I mean things like: > file copy/move/install > mkdir > file removal > find files > > Something like $(mkdir a/b/c) makes the directories and echos what it > is doing. Would that be a good idea? > > The other main thing is the interpretation of make commands by the > shell. Perhaps make could have its own "make shell" that comes with > make and can be selected via the SHELL variable. In that case, we > could use the normal syntax to do mkdir, etc., but these mundane tasks > could be shell built-ins. That would be particularly cool. No?
I don't know if Paul will like this idea, but I would suggest to combine your suggestions into a single feature: add built-in shell-style commands to Make so that it would interpret mkdir, cp, rm, etc. itself. _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
