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by pletnes 2694 days ago
Make is a great tool. I mostly use it to remember repetitive tasks, like running python tests, not as a build system. Works even better for this. What annoys me deeply is that gnu make isn’t available on windows, e.g git bash.
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The one fatal flaw is it's inability to handle whitespace in paths. How do you avoid that problem?
Can you give us an example?