Follow-up Comment #7, bug #27714 (project make):
I'm surprised you say you can do this with BSD make; I'm not aware that BSD
make has any feature like the $(shell ...) function, that can appear inside a
recipe. What syntax do you use for this in BSD make?
We can't expand the recipe in a forked
Follow-up Comment #6, bug #27714 (project make):
i dont really know how GNU make is architected, but i dont see why make cant
fork the process to handle the target and then the subprocess does both
deferred expansion and running the commands listed for that target.
i'd also point out that other
Follow-up Comment #5, bug #27714 (project make):
Hrm. The only way this could be "fixed" would be to make the $(shell ...)
function a true make job, so that it takes a job token, can run in the
background asynchronously, and is basically handled as an anonymous recipe
line that is run before the
