Re: "Managing dotfiles with nothing but a makefile"

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Yeah but there are all those $^% things and spaces, and somehow eventually I notice that one of the source files doesn't compile which explains why nothing works

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Apr 18 · 3 weeks ago

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❄ ghost [OP] · Apr 18 at 20:23:

If you're writing your own, you don't have to use them. If you're looking at someone else's, running `make -n` (possibly with grep) usually tells you what the intention is.

🚀 stack · Apr 18 at 20:32:

I will try that. It's always a mystery to me.

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❄ ghost:

— splint.rs/mkdots.gmi

Managing dotfiles with nothing but a makefile — Makefiles make files, and dotfiles are files. I've used a makefile to generate actual dotfiles as hard links for over a year, and it's worked great.

💬 11 comments · Apr 18 · 3 weeks ago · #cli #dotfiles #linux