Eric S. Raymond / autodafe · Tools for freeing your project from the clammy grip of autotools.

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• umbraroze@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  converting an autotools build recipe

  Oh yes!

  to a bare makefile

  Oh no!

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  • 7heo@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Honestly, if the makefile is well written, I will take that any day. Good makefiles are 😙👌.

    They are extremely rare, tho…

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    • Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ve always conjectured that good Makefiles existed but never seen one (or only for tiny projects). The core semantic of Makefiles is clear and straight to the point, I think the issue is in all the magic that was added to that to spare a few lines.

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why compile to a Makefile? You’d end up with automake gunk all over again. Just use cmake or so, where the declarative language replaces the Makefile entirely

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  • richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I prefer just files these days.

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