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		davexunit on April 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How We Use Make You know that you could keep the make tasks simple and have them invoke external scripts that are written in the language of your choosing, right? Building a mound of spaghetti shell code in a single file isn't the only way to construct a Makefile.

seanwilson on April 4, 2015 | [–]

Sure, but once you want to start sharing code between your external scripts and the Makefile, it makes a lot more sense to me to write it all in a single more maintainable language.

leni536 on April 4, 2015 | [–]

It starts to look ugly when your script's purpose is for writing make rules. Like dependency generation with gcc.

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