On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 8:28 AM Bahman Movaqar <bah...@bahmanm.com> wrote: > > Hey all 👋️ > > Very interesting topic! > > I thought I'd share my own attempt at having a collection of useful utilities > for my Makefiles 😅️
Slightly more on the datastucture side there's the very nice-looking GNU Make Standard Library https://github.com/brulzki/gmsl I haven't used it but I reinvented a lot of it in worse form before finding it :) Some parts of it e.g. arithmetic functions have now been built in I believe. I think part of the problem with trying to package libraries to do specific things is that almost by definition at this point people using make are sort of doing their own thing. A lot of what make usually handles is built into e.g. rust, go, javascript etc. The built-in recipes sort of suffer from this issue and a library might have the same problem. I think it's great to have these libraries available, but probably they would go better grouped together as a standalone and maybe officially recommended project, rather than being integrated into make proper. Britton
