Re: more built-in functions, make shell

[Earnie Boyd]

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.


Earnie

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