Re: Enhancements to GNU Make

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Benn Bollay <address@hidden> writes:

  bb> Procedure Support:
  bb> Make currently lacks the ability to do multiple things on a single 
  bb> line.

This feature is already implemented for the next version of GNU make,
although obviously it takes a different form than yours.

  bb> Single Level Recursive Assignment:
  bb> This operator, "^=", performs a single-level expansion to the rhs
  bb> of the assignment, and copies the resulting value into the left
  bb> hand variable, setting it to be a recursive variable.

I'm interested to hear the purposes to which you put this enhancement.
In general I'm very wary of adding many new operators to GNU make (there
are a number of other new features which will need operators that I'd
love to see added as well), but if there is sufficient justification I'm
willing to consider it.

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