Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Dec 18, 2017
GNU Make is such an essential tool that it is almost impossible to imagine working without it. Not having it, developers would probably have to resort to doing everything manually or via shell scripts.
Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees
Dec 18, 2017
Vanilla GNU Make does not support any kind of colored output. A wrapper named colormake exists to work around this, but native (opt-in) support would be welcome.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Dec 18, 2017
GNU Make requires using the Tab symbol as the first symbol of command line for execution. In some text editors this can be problematic, as they automatically insert spaces instead of tabs.