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by kd5bjo 2591 days ago
If you write them yourself they certainly can. For small projects, you can leave everything explicit and it works great.

Can you break down your problem into a bunch of rules of the form “To produce this file, I need to run these shell commands, which read those other files over there as input”? If so, Make can take care of figuring out which steps actually need to be run.