Oh no. I have never worked with Makefiles but I bet that causes pain and suffering.
I've lost so many hours to missing/extraneous spaces in YAML files that my team recently agreed to get rid of YAML from our Spring Boot codebase.
from https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/20292/why... which references https://beebo.org/haycorn/2015-04-20_tabs-and-makefiles.html
So I gave up on being smart and just used a fixed pattern (^\t) to indicate rules.
Within a few weeks of writing Make, I already had a dozen friends who were using it.
So even though I knew that "tab in column 1" was a bad idea, I didn't want to disrupt my user base.
So instead I wrought havoc on tens of millions.
I have used that example in software engineering lectures.
Side note: I was awarded the ACM Software Systems Award for Make a decade ago. In my one minute talk on stage, I began "I would like to apologize". The audience then split in two - half started laughing, the other half looked at the laughers.Agree about yaml though. I still have to look up how to align a multiline string every single time.
I learned Makefiles a bit, using it in one tiny project. Than checked Autotools and everything in my brain refused to learn this awkward workaround-engine. At the same time Meson[1] appeared and the thing with Builds, Dependencies and Testing is solved :)
PS: Dependency handling with Meson is awesome.
Of course the real solution is: just use CMake, you dweeb.