Simple Tutorial for Make

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I don’t typically have much need to use make and I know the cool kids are using maven and cooler kids are using just but make is everywhere and not going away soon. This is a nice layer-cake example of using make, some folks have a gift for explaining things well and I wanted to share. via: lobsters

Also, make can be used for anything, not just “programming”, where updates are needed to some files based on whether some other files changed.

I shared this on the fedi (some good points in discussion there), but also wanted to share here.

-- Adding a comment I made on that thread –

I tend to use a shell script when I need the whole “string together a few commands that I won’t remember later” use case. I can appreciate how make makes that easier to handle if you have sub commands and avoids having to pass and parse parameters into the script; in that scenario just seems to be the right tool but not ubiquitous.

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The use of Make is pretty common in Go projects. :slight_smile:

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That’s cool. I’ve been using gow to run my small Go project but I’ll check out some projects to see how they use make. Got any good examples that come to mind?