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Re:I Like Makefiles by whartung on Saturday September 21, 2024 @09:36AM (#41609875)
If part of your build is building your own build tool in order to ensure you have the proper build tool then why not build a different “better” build tool?

Part of the premise of Make is its ubiquity, but if you can’t rely on that save as a simple bootstrap (as you seem to be doing) then why not forego it for something else?

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Re:I Like Makefiles by chipdart on Saturday September 21, 2024 @11:24AM (#41610578)
> (..) then why not forego it for something else?

Because blindly ditching a technology for no reason at all is not a way to fix problems.

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Re:I Like Makefiles by marci on Saturday September 21, 2024 @10:25AM (#41610191)
Are you suggesting this: https://xkcd.com/927/ ?
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Re:I Like Makefiles by jart on Saturday September 21, 2024 @05:32PM (#41612801)
My project is literally to make a compiler toolchain. Do you expect me to not use it? The nice thing is that you can build my project on any computer that has modern GNU Make. That and sh are the only things that needs to be installed.
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