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I feel like any discussion of make is incomplete without a link to Recursive Make Considered Harmful[0]. Whether you agree with the premise or not, it does a ni
by mauvehaus 9y ago
I feel like any discussion of make is incomplete without a link to Recursive Make Considered Harmful[0]. Whether you agree with the premise or not, it does a nice job of introducing some advanced constructs that make supports and provides a non-contrived context in which you might use them.
[0] http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf
- gergoerdi 9y agoNon-Recursive Make is also Considered Harmful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441719 In seriousness, the linked paper describes Shake, a Make replacement with two party tricks: one, it is implemented as a DSL embedded in Haskell, thus giving a nice way of programmatic rule generation; and two, it supports monadic dependencies, unlike Make's applicative-only ones.
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