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[cjfd]

I think some decades ago I read the manual of gnu make in about an hour. After that is not great at it but can write a Makefile for a simple project.

[Jeff_Brown → cjfd]

There's a much simpler Python-based alternative[1] called make.py.

I rely heavily on Makefiles, and only recently learned about make.py. What Makefiles let you do is great, but make syntax is an absolute minefield.

[1] https://github.com/zwegner/make.py