Managing projects with GNU make
by Robert William Mecklenburg · first published 2005
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Managing Projects with GNU Make by O'Reilly is a good start. Make is much less mystifying if you get through all of its quirks. Make is not great in many ways (significant tabs are annoying, for example), but it's no SBT.
on “Using Makefile(s) for Go” ↗Managing Projects with GNU Make, 3rd Edition https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-projects-with/... O'Reilly is free via my public library. Yours might have the same
on “GNU Make 4.4 released” ↗…unreadable and are mostly undocumented. And because Make has been around since the '70s, there's lots of hard-earned wisdom in blog posts and forums readily available going back decades. O’Reilly's book "Managing Projects with GNU Make" (3rd edition) does a great job at getting someone up and running with Make. And the online documentation [1] is also quite good. But the most important thing is I'm much more productive using Make instead…
on “Makefiles for Web Work” ↗…on this subject. * Clovis L. Tondo, Andrew Nathanson, and Eden Yount (1994). Mastering MAKE: a guide to building programs on DOS, OS/2, and UNIX systems. Prentice Hall. * Robert Mecklenburg (2004). Managing Projects with GNU Make. Nutshell Handbooks. O'Reilly Media. ISBN 9780596552541. * John Graham-Cumming (2015). The GNU Make Book. No Starch Press. ISBN 9781593276492.
on “Afraid of Makefiles? Don't be” ↗…from v0.7 [2]. But not even an entire workweek is enough for that kind of meditative study. As a comparison, building Java with make: https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/ch09.pdf [PDF] From Managing Projects with GNU Make 3e (2004) by Robert Mecklenburg [1] https://gradle.org/releases [2] https://docs.gradle.org/0.7/userguide/userguide.html
on “Gradle Still Sucks” ↗…enough shell; Paths are still incompatible between OS's and distros. You still must ship your tools, which is a direct contradition of what is mentioned. In fact; I just googled it and this chapter from Managing Projects with GNU Make; talks about the issues in making Make (GNU Make, as opposed to BSD Make, which is different enough to have broken my things!): portable https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/managing-projects-with/...
on “Just: A Command Runner” ↗…Month, The three books I'm currently reading; flex and bison, Mastering Algorithms in C Expert C programming, The next three books on the "to read" stack are; Cyptonomicom, The definitive guide to GCC, Managing projects with GNU make, Did anyone else find "Code Complete" to be a bit repetitive, in places a bit redundant, and sometimes repetitive? I think the "pragmatic programmer" was a better read, and I could not put down "programming…
on “What are you reading?” ↗…the work involved in writing this book. The attention to detail is visible from the first parts of the README. Clear explanations for everything. I am also a sucker for clean written Makefiles. I have "Managing Projects with GNU Make" book that I keep in my to-read list (shamefully putting reading it off). Checking out the Makefile in the repository was a delight.
on “Crafting “Crafting Interpreters”” ↗