On 28/01/2011 04:44 PM, Darren New wrote:

> Does anyone really do this as part of a production system, btw? I've
> often seen people claim "Make is good because you can compile things
> other than code with it", but I've never actually seen a makefile that
> does anything sophisticated like that. Does anyone actually work on a
> code base that (say) invokes ImageMagik or some audio converter or some
> CD layout program or something like that as part of their product and
> *does* use Make for it?

GHC uses Make to invoke the tools for generating various documentation 
files, running the test programs and benchmarks, and so forth. That's 
the closest example I can think of off the top of my head...

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