Re: how to use 'tcl' as SHELL?

[Rodrigo Canellas]

Garrett Cooper escreveu:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Paul Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 13:14 -0300, Rodrigo Canellas wrote:
> >     
> > > Does anyone know how can I do it?
> > >       
> > Make will invoke subcommands as "$(SHELL) -c <commandstring>"
> >
> > You can only use commands for SHELL that conform to this invocation
> > model: all shells, plus things like ssh etc., do.  Tclsh, apparently,
> > doesn't... it's trying to read commands from stdin.  Check the tclsh
> > docs to see how to invoke it to run a command given on the command line.
> >
> > You will need to write a script that takes arguments in the form make
> > wants to give them, and invokes tclsh in the form that it wants to
> > receive them.
> >     
>
> tclsh execution conforms to bash, etc all, but things like
> redirection, variable declaration, and more important details quite
> frankly don't.
>
> Why do you want to use tclsh to make things?
>
> -Garrett
>   
I am trying 'tclsh' because I want a script language that works on 
MS-Windows too. My other option is 'python', but I would like a simpler 
language.

Thanks for the help!

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