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Re: more built-in functions, make shell
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Earnie Boyd |
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Re: more built-in functions, make shell |
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Sun, 3 Jul 2005 12:59:36 +0000 |
On 11:41:08 am 2005-07-03 "Earnie Boyd" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6:05:47 am 2005-07-03 Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:47:14 -0700
> > > From: Jonathan Baccash <address@hidden>
> > >
> > > 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
- more built-in functions, make shell, Jonathan Baccash, 2005/07/02
- Re: more built-in functions, make shell, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/03
- Re: more built-in functions, make shell, Earnie Boyd, 2005/07/03
- Re: more built-in functions, make shell,
Earnie Boyd <=
- Re: more built-in functions, make shell, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/07/03
- Re: more built-in functions, make shell, Earnie Boyd, 2005/07/03
- Re: more built-in functions, make shell, Paul D. Smith, 2005/07/03