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by 0xbadcafebee 1847 days ago
Mm. I've gone this way before, and eventually it breaks down. make just isn't that composeable. I have even made fancy Makefiles that allow me to pass command-line arguments to targets. At the end of the day, what you really want is a wrapper program that gives you specific composeable functionality, and Make isn't that.
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I did want that functionality in the past, but it's not exactly what I'm trying to achieve (but if you find a tool that does, please post it here). I don't want to run arbitrary commands in a container. I want to build software in a container so I don't have to think about its dependencies (as much). I should probably clarify that in the README