On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:49:39PM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM Roy J. Tellason, Sr. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 27 May 2026 08:29:09 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > "make" is a tool used in software development. It has a man page: > > > <https://manpages.debian.org/make> > > > > Looked that over, then tried "info make" which had a bit more in it, but > > not as much as I'd like. I have tried to read makefiles and find it > > difficult to get a handle on just what's going on there. Do you know of > > any other resources that might help with this? > > Make and makefiles are definitely an acquired taste. > > POSIX's make is anemic. To get useful things done, you want to use > GNU make (or equivalent). > > I prefer handwritten makefiles over those produced by generators like > Automake or Cmake. Or that has been my experience.
If I can get away with it, then I prefer those, too. Where Autotools shine is on architecture portability and cross-build. > The best way to master makefiles is to work with them -- write them by > hand and debug other people's makefiles. Or that has been my > experience. Absolutely. As with any language, actually. Cheers -- t
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