Meet bmakelib: The Minimalist Make Standard Library
Updated: 2026-10 | Published: 2026-10bmakelibI’ve been using GNU Make for a very long time, as a hobbyist and for my personal projects. And, like almost everyone else who sticks with a tool long enough, I had accumulated my own collection of hacks and snippets – a little helper here, a useful trick there, and plenty of copy-paste.That was OK until I managed, for the first time, to get buy-in from my employer to use GNU Make across the board. A company of more than 1,100 people.That changed wh…