From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 23 20:56:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDAA037B9BD; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 20:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08380; Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:56:52 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 23:56:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: commit MAKE_SHELL? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Sun, 23 Apr 2000, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > in general, it's a good idea, but the problem, is, it gives a lot more > > freedom without any real gain. It only allows one to write Makefiles that > > use your private choice of shell, and you can do anything you want, I > > think, as it is now. [some deletions] > The door's already open. Go to src/usr.bin/make. I didn't say what you asked for was hard, I was against making the addition of lots of extra complications in Makefiles too easy. To tell you the truth, I would find your idea really neat as a programmer, UNTIL I had to maintain some of the inevitable garbage that it generated among some of the less disciplined minds. That said, I'm not dead set against it, I was just giving my take. I think, overall, it's going to hugely complicate makefile maintenance, but if you get approval, go for it! > There's GNU make for that, anyway. Guess why I don't like Gmake? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message