> DL> If a command is recognised as 'cd xxx; yyy' make could fork, cd and exec.
> DL> Other optimisations (eg builtin echo) might also be benefitial.
> 
> What if you have strings of those, i.e.
> 
> 	cd xxx; yyy; cd xxn; yyz; cd foo; bar; ...
> 
> You only gain one level of optimization,

Yes, but you catch the most common case which is actually:
	cd xxx; make foo

> unless you're thinking make
> should also be parsing command lines (which is starting to sound like a
> nightmare...).

Make -j might need a builtin posix compliant shell......


	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk