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The case against Makefiles (thibaud.space)
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[-] bignose@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Give me a Make that

  • properly handles filenames with arbitrary names (Make today breaks if filenames contain whitespace)
  • uses space-based indentation level (Make today depends on the invisible difference between U+0008 TAB versus other whitespace, and refuses to process any other indentation)

Give me that, and... well, I'd probably still stick to current-day Make, because those improvements would cause my Makefiles to be backward incompatible. Make is just reliably available on pretty much any arbitrary system, unlike any candidate replacement.

this post was submitted on 02 Nov 2026
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