Re: foreach/ordering help

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Mark Therieau <address@hidden> writes:

  mt> I realize this is going to be pretty slow--I'd be open to other
  mt> ideas for sure.  A quesiton: is there a function/facility from
  mt> within gmake to dump a variable's value directly to a file
  mt> (without spawning a shell)? That would really do the trick here.

No, there's nothing like that.

Another option would be to do it N files at a time, rather than one at a
time; that would invoke only M/N shells instead of M shells.  You'd need
to work out how to break the list up into parts using the $(words ...)
etc functions.

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