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Re:Show HN: Cr – Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency by kazinator on Monday December 18, 2017 @05:53PM (#15956229)
We don't literally use make, exactly as it was forty years ago.

> Here is a very beautiful, readable, portable makefile: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/Makefile

That's a GNU Make Makefile. It's portable to installations where you have GNU Make ported already.

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Re:Show HN: Cr – Runs your tasks at maximum concurrency by Spivak on Monday December 18, 2017 @07:51PM (#15956888)
Look, this battle has been lost for ages. People only seem to write portable Makefiles by accident and usually just target the implementation of make on the platform they're developing on.
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