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A comment on Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefiles?.

Re:Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefiles? by Da_Blitz on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:11AM (#14836922)
i use it to solve dependency graphs for me in my program language of choice, at the moment this involves setting up containers and container networking but i throw it at anything graph based

make seems to be easier to install/get running than the myriad of non packaged, github only projects i have found.

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Re:Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefiles? by Da_Blitz on Monday July 24, 2017 @05:37AM (#14837030)
Have also seen a Full Certificate authority implemented using a makefile that was one of the easiest i have ever used

i am also currently using it with rsync to implement a poormans dropbox on a vps host with a systemd timer unit to clean files after 30 days for sharing files with customers, a simple wrapper script dumps it in the right folder, invokes make and causes rsync to run. the makefile also haandles setup of the account like ssh-add (with restricted commands), key generation and config options (via include files)

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