Makefile experts, unite!

[Jonathan Marler via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 11 June 2017 at 19:17:36 UTC, 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?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrei

I've shared this same frustration.  I once took a stab at 
creating a "DMake" system, where you could use standard MAKE 
syntax, or D code side by side.  I never finished it but you can 
find the concept here.  If there is interest I'd be willing to 
finish it.

https://github.com/marler8997/dmake