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Nobody forces you to use any kind of shell with redo. Its .do files can be anything you want: ELF object files, shell scripts, Perl, Python, whatever, just make it executable and obey trivial simple rules (stdout and three arguments).

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I see. That makes it a little better. At least we can utilize higher-level scripting then. Cool.

I'm still not sure about having more than one file that's handling building however...

And again noone forces you to use multiple files too :-). You can literally have just single default.do file for the whole project. apenwarr/redo somewhere explicitly noted that. Separate .do files are only for convenience and ability to automatically depend on target's build rules independently from others, that Make just do not do at all.

Well, the fact that this is a bit confusing is not a good sign. But maybe I should read the page again and more slowly.

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