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Re:I Like Makefiles by deepsun on Monday September 23, 2024 @12:11PM (#41627627)
No I mean Makefiles, how author uses them, are additional complexity over shell scripts.

The whole difference of Makefiles, their original idea was to not re-compile a target _file_ if it's already there. So if you need .PHONY -- you're using Makefiles wrongly.

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