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		chungy on July 20, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect se... You don't need a Makefile, but you can just run "make foo" and it'll automatically run "cc -o foo foo.c" for you.

anyfoo on July 21, 2023 [–]

Almost thirty years and I never knew that.

wruza on July 21, 2023 | [–]

Make has builtin rules for most obvious build jobs: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Catalogue...

You also can pass env vars to it:

  $ CC=clang make foo

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Implicit-...

And (with care) define your own in: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#MAKEFILES...

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