The case against Makefiles - A Work in Progress ...
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You don’t need a Makefile. Whatever your use-case, there is a better tool. Makefiles are archaic technology, living on by force of inertia and...
  • flatbield@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    Make is fine unless you want to build on Windows. Then you kind of need something else. It is the very slow process creation infrastructure that kills Make as a tool on Windows.

    • bignose@programming.devEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Make is fine unless you want to build on Windows. Then you kind of need something else.

      I agree, you kind of need something else instead of Windows if you want to build software.

      It is the very slow process creation infrastructure that kills Make as a tool on Windows.

      s/Make as a tool on //