You could always alias make to the default you like. But if the newbie can't "make" it work, he/she gets frustrated.
I really wish dd had this type of caution. It would save me a lot of misery, preventing the loss of numerous drives.
I really wish dd had this type of caution. It would save me a lot of misery, preventing the loss of numerous drives.
That breaks down when you work with multiple projects.
For example, try writing a script that downloads and builds a couple of projects. You would have to parse each makefile and hope you can discover the right target to build.
make all && sudo make install
Phony targets can have prerequisites. When one directory contains multiple programs, it is most convenient to describe all of the programs in one makefile ./Makefile. Since the target remade by default will be the first one in the makefile, it is common to make this a phony target named ‘all’ and give it, as prerequisites, all the individual programs.