Re: more built-in functions, make shell

[Earnie Boyd]

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