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My favourite (ab)use of `make` is as a batch runner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602 This (ab)use
by Mister_Snuggles 2y ago
My favourite (ab)use of `make` is as a batch runner: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602
This (ab)use of `make` runs multiple times a day, every day, and works perfectly every time.
The inspiration of this was an (ab)use of `make` as a way to paralellize Linux system startup: https://web.archive.org/web/20110606144530/http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot/index.html https://web.archive.org/web/20110606144530/http://www.ibm.co...
- matheusmoreira 2y agoI (ab)use make to manage my dotfiles. https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/GNUmakefile https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/GNUmake... I'm surprised at how well this thing works every time I use it. I even blogged about it. https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-with-make https://www.matheusmoreira.com/articles/managing-dotfiles-wi... Recently made a tool that processes the make database and prints the phony targets and their dependencies: https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/~/.local/bin/phony-targets https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/~/.loca... I use it as a sort of makefile help command. Works surprisingly well too.