Re: Problems with echo. (echo period)

[Greg Chicares]

On 2007-04-19 14:26Z, Aaron Shatters wrote:
> 
> There is no reason why this should not work, which is why I'm requesting the 
> gnu make change.

Here's an idea that might do what you want without changing 'make':
write your own 'echo..exe' that does whatever you like. My compiler's
on vacation today, so I just recycled an old binary in the following
session that starts in a *nixy shell:

C:/tmp[0]$cp hello_world.exe echo..exe
C:/tmp[0]$./echo.
Hello, world!
C:/tmp[0]$cat echo.make
.PHONY: all
all:
        @echo begin
        @echo.
        @echo end
C:/tmp[0]$/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/CMD
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\tmp>PATH=/WINDOWS

C:\tmp>PATH
PATH=/WINDOWS

C:\tmp>\usr\bin\make -f echo.make
begin
Hello, world!
end

C:\tmp>exit
C:/tmp[0]$make --version
GNU Make 3.81
Copyright (C) 2006  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

This program built for i686-pc-mingw32