How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
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Re: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
#2Even the slightest attempt at guessing the host system or searching for tools present on a system will quickly convert this into a blog article earnestly begging for deep societal changes and analyses the inevitable marching of time.
Re: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
#3For simple things, make is fine. It does file caching and the GNU tool does parallel concurrency.
For anything needing light-to-moderate software configuration management, cmake is readily available and simple.
If you're running a Google then you're using a build and DVCS that make use of extensive caching, synthetic filesystems, and tools that wrap other tools.
I won't say what not to use. ;)
Re: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
#4Even the slightest attempt at guessing the host system or searching for tools present on a system will quickly convert this into a blog article earnestly begging for deep societal changes and analyses the inevitable marching of time.
Hahaha. Yeap. And project dependency analysis and library feature detection quickly demand the GNU variant, autotools (gasp!), clunky scripts, or something else. Use make for simple things and simple things only.
Re: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
#5tell me you've never seen Dr. Strangelove without telling me you've never seen Dr. Strangelove
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#6Taskfiles are pretty cool. The tab/space things makes Makefiles painful for me.
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#7My favourite (ab)use of `make` is as a batch runner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602
This (ab)use of `make` runs multiple times a day, every day, and works perfectly every time.
The inspiration of this was an (ab)use of `make` as a way to paralellize Linux system startup: https://web.archive.org/web/20110606144530/http://www.ibm.co...
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#8I’ve replaced my Make usage mostly with taskfile.dev and/or Warp workflows/notebooks
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#9I use makefiles a lot as make-do but I must admit the syntax does my head in at times. If anyone has a good resource that teaches makefile progressively, I'd be interested.
The main issue I have is that it goes from dead simple to pit of what the hell is happening with various things interacting with each others.
Re: How I stopped worrying and loved Makefiles
#10i always hated make. until i read the manual...