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Re:I Like Makefiles by yunohn on Saturday September 21, 2024 @04:19AM (#41608442)
> It's already installed practically everywhere

This always comes up, and is a sad chicken/egg problem.

We can all somehow agree that Make mostly sucks, but OS maintainers aren’t interested in providing a default alternative, due to choice overload or something.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by badgersnake on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:48AM (#41608807)
This entire article and discussion is about why people like make.
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Re:I Like Makefiles by yunohn on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:58AM (#41610763)
No, a significant amount of the comments here are about how Make sucks.
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Re:I Like Makefiles by hulitu on Saturday September 21, 2024 @07:33AM (#41609308)
CMake runs make, ninja runs make.
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