Makefile experts, unite!

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2017-06-11 21:17, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Phobos' posix.mak offers the ability to only run unittests for one module:
>
> make std/range/primitives.test BUILD=debug -j8
>
> ... or package:
>
> make std/range.test BUILD=debug -j8
>
> It runs module tests in parallel and everything. This is definitely
> awesome. But say I misspell things by using a dot instead of the slash:
>
> make std.range.test BUILD=debug -j8
>
> Instead of an error, I get a no-op result that looks like success. How
> can that situation be converted to an error?

Wouldn't it be more natural if the following syntax was used:

make test std/range/primitives.d

That is, "make test" then the path to a file or directory.

But I rather see the make build system completely replaced with 
something else.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg