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by arinlen
1400 days ago
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> It's quite rare to run into someone who is aware that make can be used to define rules for producing files from other files. Is it, though? That's literally what Make does as part of its happy path. GNU Make even added support for pattern rules, as this use case is so pervasive. What do you think people think make is about? |
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i'm talking working on projects with people whose first encounter with make is in a project where someone else has defined a Makefile to wrap imperative actions, e.g. `make run-unit-tests`, `make deploy`. If they think about make at all, there's a good chance they think make is for performing imperative actions, and has nothing specifically to do with producing files from other files using rules and a dependency graph, or the idea of a target being a file, or a target being out of date.