Re: Math and GMake

[Ken Smith]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:42:32PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 09:22:15AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:
> > 
> > I knew there had to be a simple command for this somewhere.  Thanks.
> > But my problem is more general.  I cannot use bash or zsh where the
> > double parentheses notation is available.  I would also like to come
> > up with a better way to do math in gmake.
> > 
> > Also, I forgot to mention that the the above example does require gmake
> > 3.80 or later.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help.
> > Ken
> 
> What exactly do you need?
> 
> Why can't you settle for one invocation of an external program? 
> 
> You can always write that program yourself in c/awk/perl/bc/whatever.

I'm basically pushing on gmake to see how far it can go so I can design
a generalized framework that can work within a particular environment.
I am willing to use external code and very well may offload some of this
sort of processing to scripts.  I am interested in using gmake
primitives alone inasmuch is possible to keep the framework managable.

Ken