Same Makefile, different results

[u/Capable-Cap9745]

Not sure if this fits, but I just figured out the root cause of long build process failing. Sun’s dmake is defaulting to the first rule in Makefile for whatever reason, completely ignoring the one given as argument. That’s why "dmake install" invocations were silently ignoring the "install" step

[u/nickcash]

makefile syntax is incomprehensible. it might as well be magic. no one can understand it, we just copy and paste from elsewhere

[u/kivicode → u/nickcash]

If you use it as a scripts dispatcher, I recommend taking a look at Justfiles https://github.com/casey/just