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Re:I Like Makefiles by deepspace on Saturday September 21, 2024 @02:18AM (#41607898)
The author also seems not to have discovered 'make configure' and the horrors of the automake/autoconf toolset and the m4 macro language.
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Re:I Like Makefiles by tpoacher on Saturday September 21, 2024 @02:45AM (#41607994)
Sure but these are completely orthogonal to make. Might as well complain about gcc.

If anything, it's an argument for making better use of make's own features for configuration in the first place.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by instig007 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @03:28AM (#41608206)
what are those horrors about?
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Re:I Like Makefiles by deepspace on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:21AM (#41608447)
Have you tried writing (or even just reading) a configure.ac script?
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Re:I Like Makefiles by instig007 on Saturday September 21, 2024 @07:02AM (#41609159)
sure, and there's lots of documentation around it, that's why I asked for examples of the horrors.
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