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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 m
by davexunit 12y ago
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.
- seanwilson 12y agoSure, 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.
- leni536 12y agoIt starts to look ugly when your script's purpose is for writing make rules. Like dependency generation with gcc.