Somehow in the same vein is the work I did in bmakelib: https://github.com/bahmanm/bmakelib/blob/main/doc/logged.md
On another note, I think for such a feature to be added to Make it should be a bit more abstract. A couple of ideas that crossed my mind: - The timestamp format should either be configurable OR default to the user's locale. - The log prefix should either be configurable (e.g. passed as a parameter) OR be in the form of `FILENAME:LINENO` - Should we stop at `info` and not expand it to implement the well-known log levels, such as WARN and ERROR? -- Bahman Movaqar (he/him)https://linktr.ee/bahmanm On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 at 06:00, xf liao <fxl0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, my name is Nico, and I’m from China. I’m a senior IT > systems architect, and I use Make in my daily work to build IT environments. > > In my scripts, I have a lot of code like the following to print logs: > define loginfo = > @echo "$$(date -d today +'%Y-%m-%d %T') info: [$(@)]-$(1)" > endef > I wish Make had native support for this functionality > $(info some message) > so I made some minor modifications to implement it. Now, I’d like to merge > these changes into the main branch. >
