Re:Notes on Writing Makefiles
by vacri on Saturday November 28, 2015 @06:47AM
(#10640821)
I've recently been learning Make a little in order to do .deb packaging The Official Way; that is with debuild (which expects Make), not with FPM. I enjoy having a Makefile, and I enjoyed not having a Makefile, but the bit in-between these two states wasn't particularly fun...
But once you have a Makefile that works, it's easy to extend. Overall I'm glad I bothered to learn it (at least a little bit), and I'm rewarded with a .deb file that can set up it's own environment rather than me having to set it up separately. FPM can include all the boilerplate scripting to do this, but you end up with so many flags (or wrapper scripts) that you may as well just go with debuild/Make in the first place.
But once you have a Makefile that works, it's easy to extend. Overall I'm glad I bothered to learn it (at least a little bit), and I'm rewarded with a .deb file that can set up it's own environment rather than me having to set it up separately. FPM can include all the boilerplate scripting to do this, but you end up with so many flags (or wrapper scripts) that you may as well just go with debuild/Make in the first place.