Re: Make, MAKE_TERMOUT, color escape sequences, TTYs, and PTYs

2016-05-29 Thread Tristan Wibberley
Hi, I can imagine this will be difficult to make complete, useful and bug free, there are many issues that will appear. I'd suggest saving a lot of time in development while still allowing the feature in its earliest forms and leaving room for issues to be resolved at will by providing hooks for

Re: Make, MAKE_TERMOUT, color escape sequences, TTYs, and PTYs

2016-05-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Sat, 2016-05-28 at 16:09 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > If make's own stdout/stderr refers to a PTY, make could create PTYs in > place of pipes, collect output that way, and synchronize it to its own > stdout/stderr as it does now. Just for clarity: GNU make doesn't use pipes to collect output,