here’s some makefile bullshit for you from bearssl’s makefile:

the first 4 lines are microsoft nmake directives. it ignores the escaped newlines, and includes the nmake makefile, because ifndef 0 is always true, so it never reaches the else. on unix, they are hidden because posix specifies that comments start with # and continue until an unescaped newline is reached, so unix makes only see the lines afterwards, and includes the unix makefile.

there’s more, i’ll put it in a comment
#unix #make

DEAR OPEN GROUP
I have been reading through the “Open Group Base Specifications Issue 8 IEEE Std 1003.1-2024”, known by aficionados of the trade as POSIX.1-2024.

I noticed that the “rm” utility as you have defined it accepts the -v option, whereas the “cp” utility does not. this appears to be a glaring inconsistency and i would appreciate if in the next issue it could be made right.

yours truly,
shrub

tldr: the c in posix stands for consistency

a makefile compiler than can emit graphviz, among other less-cool looking things (ninja, json)

i have what has been described as ‘build system autism’ so i find this unbelievably cool

gnu make extension support is missing many things right now but it does work on low-medium complexity makefiles

if ya wanna try it out or contribute its https://codeberg.org/derivelinux/shinobi