The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by jmtulloss » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 10:53 PM UTC

The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make
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Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by sigvef » Mon, Mar 24, 2014, 11:33 PM UTC

Although make does have a lot of weird quirks, its winning strength is that it is installed virtually everywhere.

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by shocks » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:19 AM UTC

I'm tethered on a mobile connection and all I can see when I try to view this is a blank page. :(

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by jmtulloss » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:31 AM UTC

shocks wrote: post #3

I'm tethered on a mobile connection and all I can see when I try to view this is a blank page. :(

It's not the most robust blog in the world, sorry about that :)

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by shocks » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:34 AM UTC

jmtulloss wrote: post #4

shocks wrote: post #3

I'm tethered on a mobile connection and all I can see when I try to view this is a blank page. :(

It's not the most robust blog in the world, sorry about that :)

Heh, it's okay. I'll read it when I'm not browsing on a potato! :)

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by danielweber » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:34 AM UTC

shocks wrote: post #3

I'm tethered on a mobile connection and all I can see when I try to view this is a blank page. :(

It appears to be a lot of Javascript.

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by sdesol » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:37 AM UTC

sigvef wrote: post #2

Although make does have a lot of weird quirks, its winning strength is that it is installed virtually everywhere.

The problem that I've found when I was trying to port my installer to FreeBSD was their make doesn't like GNU Makefiles. Not sure when they diverged from one another so having Make everywhere, doesn't necessary mean your Makefile will work everywhere.

I liked how security centric FreeBSD was but they seem to be anti-enterprise friendly. The process to install Oracle Java was painful and EnterpriseDB didn't even bother creating a Postgres installer for it. Maybe the freedom that the BSD license offers, is making their environment too stagnant when compared to GNU and Linux.

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by goalieca » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:39 AM UTC

With the theme of ageism and NIH being brought up a lot lately, I'm glad to see that the neck-bearded unix philosophy (tm) of composition and single purpose are winning over these complicated object oriented frameworks.

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by codezero » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:42 AM UTC

FYI, this only loaded after disabling ghostery and adblock.

Re: The Ultimate Frontend Build tool: make

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Post by JoshTriplett » Tue, Mar 25, 2014, 12:44 AM UTC

sdesol wrote: post #7

sigvef wrote: post #2

Although make does have a lot of weird quirks, its winning strength is that it is installed virtually everywhere.

The problem that I've found when I was trying to port my installer to FreeBSD was their make doesn't like GNU Makefiles. Not sure when they diverged from one another so having Make everywhere, doesn't necessary mean your Makefile will work everywhere. I liked how security centric FreeBSD was but they seem to be anti-enterprise friendly. The process to install Oracle Java was painful and EnterpriseDB didn't even bothe…

> The problem that I've found when I was trying to port my installer to FreeBSD was their make doesn't like GNU Makefiles. Not sure when they diverged from one another so having Make everywhere, doesn't necessary mean your Makefile will work everywhere.

As with many other utilities, you can always run "gmake" for GNU make. If you can get what you need to do done with portable make, by all means do so, but if you need to depend on GNU make, it's widely available.