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Unifying Make and Shell

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Raphael Das Gupta edited this page May 31, 2022 · 14 revisions

General problem: do they support build variants in multiple output dirs? For example, I believe this is hard/impossible with the redo model, and I don't like tons of tiny shell scripts.

  • redo -- redo is a package originally designed by Daniel J. Bernstein in 2003. Its purpose is to provide a build system for software packages that does incremental builds. No parallel builds.

  • danfuzz/blur -- Blur is a very small and simple target-driven (top-down) build system, with (practically speaking) no dependencies: It is written entirely as a small handful of Bash scripts, totaling about 1,200 lines.

  • setup.shl - A simple Bash library for setting up a directory structure using Makefile-like definitions

  • akkartik/basic-build -- A minimal build system using Bourne sh. I believe one person pointed out the fact that the author has to topologically sort the definitions themselves.

  • rain-1/makes

I also ranted a bit in this comment thread about the overlap between Make and shell. And what I want from a build tool (build variants to support performance, security, correctness, etc.)

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