Paul D. Smith wrote: >Yes of course. As I said, I was only pointing out that the specific >examples you gave could already be performed fairly easily. > > >My intention for the future is to integrate an embedded scripting >language into GNU make. I am not interested in inventing a whole new >language to use with make, which is why I've avoided adding lots of new >functions. And an embedded scripting language will be a lot faster and >more flexible than shell or system calls. > >Nevertheless I have not decided yes or no on a system function. > > > Something like linking in a perl interpreter and then doing $(perl ....) ? Sould be fairly easy ... but the syntax wont fit well with make (escaping every $ for perl ... hmm ...) for this to be practical , there could be an option for make which specifies which character to use instead of $ for characters?
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