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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by penagwin on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:31AM (#20645448)
>I was regularly dealing with bugs in multi-million-line makefiles.

I've personally only used make for a few projects, and might not be "in the know" about how to best use make, but isn't a multi million (!?) line makefile a sign you should probably break it into peices, or use a different solution?

Multi-million just seems insane to me

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Re:Advice to my younger self: become allergic to the churn by Gibbon1 on Thursday August 08, 2019 @02:22PM (#20647127)
It sounds like something that was auto generated by a brain dead script at one time. And then later hand modified to 'get things to work' which then meant there eventually was no way to regenerate it from scratch.

Personal feeling is you should have a way of regenerating makefiles.

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