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Re:How We Use Make by davexunit on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:45PM (#9319425)
You know that you could keep the make tasks simple and have them invoke external scripts that are written in the language of your choosing, right? Building a mound of spaghetti shell code in a single file isn't the only way to construct a Makefile.
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Re:How We Use Make by seanwilson on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:51PM (#9319433)
Sure, but once you want to start sharing code between your external scripts and the Makefile, it makes a lot more sense to me to write it all in a single more maintainable language.
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Re:How We Use Make by leni536 on Saturday April 04, 2015 @11:36AM (#9321096)
It starts to look ugly when your script's purpose is for writing make rules. Like dependency generation with gcc.
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