Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-05-11 Thread Samkit Jain
Yeah, I guess what I was thinking simple is more complex to code. But considering this kind of request is coming to GNU make since a couple years now(the first I saw was in 2007), there should be a way to handle it in generic manner. But obviously saying is easier than doing, so I will also start r

Re: Patch to allow make to load plugins that add new functions.

2012-05-11 Thread Samkit Jain
I have been breaking my head over a simple thing of measuring the progress of build i.e. I wanted to know how many files are supposed to be built and how many are already built till now giving an idea of how much more time I would have to wait. The only way I could think of this was to have hook/ca