Re: Extending gmake to make it less dependant on the shell

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Matt Lavoie <address@hidden> writes:

  ml> I was wondering if the community has considered extending gnu make
  ml> to make it less dependent on shells.

Well, GNU make can use any interpreter as a shell.  If you don't like
the problems with a Bourne-like shell you can always use Perl or some
other portable interpreter, and write your rules in that language...

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