On Mon, 2020-05-18 at 21:05 +0200, Jouke Witteveen wrote: > Otherwise, POSIX prescribes an expr command, so with: > expr = $(shell expr '$1') > you can already do $(call expr,2 * 3 + 5).
Please remember not every user of GNU make has access to a POSIX environment. I'm not suggesting we re-implement POSIX shell, coreutils, etc. inside GNU make. But, there may be a way to get a lot of bang for relatively little buck, portability-wise. It's at least worth discussing.
