> Make is a great tool for my use case. I'm sure it is, but I would suggest also looking into possible alternatives like "redo" and "tup". (If nothing else the

> Make is a great tool for my use case. I'm sure it is, but I would suggest also looking into possible alternatives like "redo" and "tup". (If nothing else then for your own edumafacation.) Anyway... this does not change the fact that make is fundamentally not suited to handle the non-trivial build problems in the modern age. It just does not work because it's built on the idea of files when describing dependencies. Almost no modern programming language works exclusively on a file level -- C and C++ were the major holdouts here, but C++ is moving towards a module-based compilation model... for lots of good reasons. (Of course, make can theoretically be made to work for any arbitrary scenario, but ITT we've already seen quite a few incredibly awful/ugly hacks been posted to solve problems... that shouldn't have been problems in the first place.)