Re: Automatic prerequisite generation

[Earnie Boyd]

Mike Capp wrote:
> Greg Chicares wrote:
>
> > Mike Capp wrote:
> >
> > > [snip]
> > > the MSYS shell seems too restrictive with regard to where you put your
> > > files, running make from editors and capturing the output, and so on.
> >
> >
> > You can do
> >   make 2>&1 |less
> >   make some_target >/tmp/captured-output 2>&1
> >   make 2>&1 | tee captured-output
> > What do you want instead?
>
>
> As you doubtless guessed, I think my objections largely stemmed from 
> ignorance here. I'd heard that MSYS was purely an interactive shell, 
> based on the assumption that you'd always be running 'make' from the 
> supplied rxvt terminal, and the docs that came with it mostly reinforce 
> that impression. This would make it pretty useless as an external tool 
> for an editor. If, as seems to be the case, you can also run the sh.exe 
> directly or specify it as the system shell inside your makefile, MSYS 
> gets a *lot* more attractive.

Please help me correct your confusion.  At what point does the 
documentation need improved?

Thanks,
Earnie.