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Re:Using Make – writing less Makefile by dagmx on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @04:40PM (#38776372)
The irony is that the same argument would work against Make in the description further up vs other build systems like CMake etc.

Not to take away from your correct answer of course

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Re:Using Make – writing less Makefile by gumby on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @11:46PM (#38779175)
That’s because CMake calls make or an equivalent (ninja, xcodebuild…) that actually does all the dependency checking!
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