Re: .ONESHELL enhancement?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Matt McCutchen wrote on Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:06:10AM CEST:
> Yes.  I suppose this is the real problem: if automake generates a
> multiline command script that relies on shell state not being preserved,
> it would have to add parentheses to work in .ONESHELL mode, but that
> would be slow on Cygwin.  IMO, the solution is for automake to avoid
> generating such scripts by splitting the lines into separate targets.
> Code generated by automake is already subject to many portability
> constraints; what's one more?  :D

We try to avoid portability constraints stemming from GNU tools (and
other free software tools) by fixing these tools instead.  Also, a split
into separate targets has other implications beside avoiding this issue.

Cheers,
Ralf