Makefiles are for more than just compilations?

[Neal Ziring]

> I am interested in how people are using makefiles.  I am using makefiles 
> for running lint, cleaning up a directory, and producing printouts.  
> What are you using makefiles for?  (Examples are appreciated.)  I'll 
> collect, sort, sift through and post what remains to the net.
> 

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I use make for:

        - compiling and running ada programs
        - nroff-ing and troff-ing documentation
        - doing backups (experiment which failed)
        - cleaning out directories
        - checking things in and out of rcs "archives"
        - translating data tables to C header files
        - compiling, running, listing, and beautifying C, lisp and 
          even fortran programs


Things which I have though about using make for but have
never tried include:

        - adding new users
        - removing users  
        - setting up terminal types
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