Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
Nice, but only useful with plain old Unix Make, or maybe plain old GNU Make.
It's not much "help" for advanced make programs like BSD Make (or GNU Make where projects supply their own advanced macro packages) where the majority of targets are defined in the system-supplied macro package.
Also note that the "-l" option for "column" is non-standard. Better to use a special column separator character, such as a tab, to make it more portable.
BTW I had trouble with the basic REs in the sed expressions on NetBSD -- I just converted everything to full REs and used "sed -E" instead.
Nice, but only useful with plain old Unix Make, or maybe plain old GNU Make.
It's not much "help" for advanced make programs like BSD Make (or GNU Make where projects supply their own advanced macro packages) where the majority of targets are defined in the system-supplied macro package.
Also note that the "-l" option for "column" is non-standard. Better to use a special column separator character, such as a tab, to make it more portable.
BTW I had trouble with the basic REs in the sed expressions on NetBSD -- I just converted everything to full REs and used "sed -E" instead.