On: Ask HN: In what creative ways are you using Makefiles?

[stephenr]

I guess it depends what you consider creative?

I use one to build my company's Debian Vagrant boxes: https://app.vagrantup.com/koalephant

I use one to build a PHP library into a .phar archive and upload it to BitBucket

My static-ish site generator can create a self-updating Makefile: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14836706

I use them as a standard part of most project setup