Re:I Like Makefiles
by Brian_K_White on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:38AM
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It's a much smaller problem to port a makefile to a different make than to deal with most of the alternatives and their requirements.
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Re:I Like Makefiles
by ReleaseCandidat on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:58AM
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That depends if the person who must do the porting knows Make or not and which GNU Make (it's always about GNU Make!) feature had been used. And chances are JS devs don't at all or just as little as the one who wrote the article.
Don't get me wrong: I don't like Make, but I hate CMake and Autotools (and many other C++ build systems) too (and C and C++ and Fortran compilers and their vendors).