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Make considered misused

Name: Anonymous 2014-12-30 2:24

This shit has gotten out of hand. Make wasn't good enough, so out comes CMake, which is 1000% more bloated than was already necessary. The output Makefile is incomprehensible and can't even really be read by humans because it calls back into fucking CMake itself! Even with plain ol' Make, it is considered fashionable to just blanket the file with cryptic pattern matching garbage that is no-doubt copy-pasted from some tutorial and tweaked by trial and error, all because someone is too lazy to update the Makefile when new files are added. The proper solutions for that is to either stop being a lazy fuck or to stop adding new files all willy-nilly.

To protest such nonsense, from now on, I'll just have a shell script compile, or for things that need more complex options, I'll use ./configure to write a shell script to direct compilation. Or maybe a perl script to do everything.

Name: Anonymous 2015-01-02 19:43

>>8
OSS actually has a better chance of having a good build because there's no designated "build guy" you can ask to fix things when a compilation unit is changed. Bad build systems drive away contributors.

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