GNU Make Makefiles
The cluster centers on debates about GNU Makefiles, including their syntax limitations, best practices, potential improvements to Make itself, and reactions to opinionated approaches or perceived reinventions.
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2019: An opinionated approach to GNU Make, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812656
This is a poor take. MAKE files have existed for decades.
Honestly Makefiles that are more than 10 lines should not exist
How does this differ from what make files have been doing for decades?
Because make doesn't do this?
What's wrong with makefiles and why is new Go convention better?
makefiles are awesome but misunderstood and widely abused.
This might be worth building into the makefile interpreter. Doing it in the makefiles themselves is quite difficult to get right and very messy.
Makefiles are still going strong!
Why doesn't someone just build good syntax into make itself?just put some coded comment at the top of the file like "#makev2" and below have variables, arrays, lists, ignore tabs vs spaces, etc