What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspecified

Re:What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspec... by Avamander on Sunday October 28, 2018 @08:13AM (#18320299)

I think make is too much of a write-only language, it's also hard to debug and autogenerators (automake) create makefiles that are just abhorrent.

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Re:What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspec... by zaphar on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:39AM (#18320533)

It's not Make's fault that autogenerated Makefiles are hard to read. The same is true of pretty any much language produced by autogenerated code.

It is possible to write perfectly reasonable and debuggable Makefiles if you do it by hand.

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Re:What 'dependency' means in Unix init systems is underspec... by orf on Sunday October 28, 2018 @09:47AM (#18320558)

Same for assembly. Does that mean it's easy, intuitive and doesn't suffer from horrible pitfalls?

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