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Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by qznc on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:29AM (#13866575)
GNU Make works intuitively in pattern rules, but differently for normal rules? Uh oh.
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Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by Arkanosis on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @07:32AM (#13866589)
It even has builtin implicit rules. Enabled by default. Checking for the existence of files that are not found in any new project for maybe ten or twenty years (such as RCS and SCSS version control files).

On. Every. Single. Run.

Yup.

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Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by xyzzy_plugh on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @11:49AM (#13868503)
But I love the built-in implicit rules. I use these frequently.

Often, I write a little test program in C or C++. I name the file "foo.c". Then, to build it I simply type `make foo`.

Sure the rules may be a bit stale, but there isn't much software i use today that I could use in a near identical manner 40 years ago. Make has truly stood the test of time.

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