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Re:A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017) by stkdump on Monday August 01, 2022 @03:17PM (#32310825)
Does it support incremental builds? How does it detect include dependencies? Is it portable?
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Re:A Tutorial on Portable Makefiles (2017) by trasz on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @06:10AM (#32316914)
1. Sure (if you didn’t need incremental builds, why bother with make at all? Just use sh.)

2. It doesn’t, it’s programmers job to make an effort to append a file name to a single line in a single file.

3. It’s portable in the same way autotools are portable, which means you can make it work with relative ease.

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