[HN Gopher] Checkmake: Experimental Linter/Analyzer for Makefiles
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       Checkmake: Experimental Linter/Analyzer for Makefiles
        
       Author : harporoeder
       Score  : 48 points
       Date   : 2022-08-14 16:09 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | vlle wrote:
        
       | baby wrote:
       | Do we still need makefiles :(? What's the alternative?
        
         | maccard wrote:
         | I still use makefiles for a wrapper around the build steps. How
         | else do you handle the magic incantation for aws ecr get-login-
         | password --region region | docker login --username AWS
         | --password-stdin aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com
         | docker push <...>
         | 
         | No suggestions on better alternatives though unfortunately
        
         | shepherdjerred wrote:
         | I've found Earthly[0] to be a good alternative. Its syntax is
         | reminiscent of both Make and Dockerfiles.
         | 
         | I still heavily use Makefiles at my workplace. It seems to be
         | common with Go projects.
         | 
         | [0]: https://earthly.dev/
        
       | mgradowski wrote:
       | Excellent name.
        
         | t6jvcereio wrote:
         | I hate puns in names of tools. Makes my brain stutter.
        
       | Groxx wrote:
       | Hmm. `--list-rules` doesn't seem to work (in the docker version
       | anyway), and I threw it at an absolutely awful Makefile (cyclic
       | dependencies, variable spelling errors making them empty, several
       | other clear problems) both before and after I rewrote the whole
       | thing...
       | 
       | ... and it's only complaining about targets over 5 lines long
       | (really? some of the CLI tools I'm running take 20+ lines of
       | flags spread out for readability, I'm not going to shrink that)
       | and one or two missing .PHONY markers (it's correct about those).
       | There's one fewer missing .PHONY after my rewrite.
       | 
       | Given the list in the rules folder, kinda seems like it doesn't
       | check enough to be useful. As much as I would truly love a brutal
       | make checker.
        
       | shepherdjerred wrote:
       | Unfortunately Checkmake only has 4 rules[0]. It's not a very
       | useful tool unless you're wanting a tool that complains that you
       | don't have an 'all' and 'test' target, or that your target is
       | longer than 5 lines[1].
       | 
       | [0]: https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/tree/main/rules
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       | [1]:
       | https://github.com/mrtazz/checkmake/blob/main/rules/maxbodyl...
        
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