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This is my life now, until I finally understand Cmake. (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Which will probably be never.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (10 children)

Life is and will always be better writing your own Makefiles. It's literally so easy. I do not get the distaste. Cmake is arcane magic. Bazel is practically written in runes. Makefile is a just a glorified build script, but where you don't have to use a bunch of if statements to avoid building everything each time.

[–] Socsa 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Manual makefiles don't scale though and you end up needing some other bootstrap framework pretty quick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

How the heck does a Makefile not scale??? That's all it does!

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