On 11:41:08 am 2005-07-03 "Earnie Boyd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 6:05:47 am 2005-07-03 Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I don't know if I like the idea. I see the benefits but I don't know > if the benefits outway the headaches it might cause. >
But I suppose we could offer the option as a configurable item; --enable-pseudo-shell or something like that. Earnie _______________________________________________ Make-w32 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/make-w32
