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Re:I Like Makefiles by darby_nine on Saturday September 21, 2024 @02:09AM (#41607870)
Right but writing dependency management (of targets, not package management) in shell seems like a nightmare compared to just leveraging make. Why complicate things? It's dead simple to debug, the interface is dead simple, what's the downside?
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Re:I Like Makefiles by boomlinde on Saturday September 21, 2024 @03:48AM (#41608308)
Right, but the original point which started the thread is that "The author is not even using the mtime-based dependency tracking", in which case a plain shell script is very much a viable alternative to make.

I don't particularly mind this use of make, but as an article on make it fails to exemplify what I think is its main purpose.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by darby_nine on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:40AM (#41610664)
I don't think that really matters. Sometimes even basic shell scripts are better modeled with a makefile.
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Re:I Like Makefiles by tcfhgj on Saturday September 21, 2024 @03:10AM (#41608117)
In my PS script solution, I just added a clean option+command.

I rewrote my makefile in PS and don't miss anything from make and have no regrets, as it is simpler now.

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