Makefile

Overview Many people think of Makefile as merely a build assistant for C/C++. But Make is fundamentally a dependency-driven task execution engine — you tell it “what the target is, what it depends on, and how to generate it,” and it handles executing in the correct order while skipping steps that don’t need repeating. This model is equally powerful in ops scenarios: deployment depends on build, cleanup depends on service shutdown, checks depend on configuration being ready....