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it career in mage career terms (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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[–] 12 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

oh god early career, coding on a 20 year old program

using makefiles to compile while on a remote host

lack of target resulted in trying to programatically delete the remote hosts root

thank good i did not have the permission

why is defaulting like this a thing instead of a syntax error?

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  • [–] 3 points 8 hours ago

    99% of the time it's fine, because 99% of the time the person who wrote the Makefile undertands Makefiles and knows that the first thing you do is define a default target. A default target that's chosen reasonably is a very nice feature of make because there are no standard names for targets, and no easy way to find out the names of targets other than trying to read the Makefile, which can be a pain in the ass.

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