MAKESIMPLE(1)

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✨ makesimple(1) — the makefile glow-up page ✨

okay bestie, welcome to makesimple 💖 it's a lil script that lives in your terminal and does exactly one thing extremely well: it takes a full-fledged GNU makefile and de-sugars it down to its simplest form, using the GmakeDB parser. no cap.

🌸 NAME 🌸

makesimple — de-sugar GNU makefiles to its simplest form using the GmakeDB parser 🧚

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

$ makesimple -f myGNUmakefile.mk > simplest.mk

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so the makesimple script is a makefile simplifier. periodt. it converts a full-fledged GNU makefile into a highly de-sugared basic makefile, and honestly? that output is almost a call-path tree dump. it's giving ✨raw structural truth✨.

🦋 SVN REPOSITORY 🦋

for the very latest version of this script, bestie, you gotta check out the source from:

<http://github.com/agentzh/makefile-parser-pm>

there is anonymous access to all. 👑 so go off, clone away, no login required, we love a transparent repo.

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Zhang "agentzh" Yichun, <agentzh@gmail.com> ⭐

Copyright (c) 2005-2008 by Zhang "agentzh" Yichun (agentzh).

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. 🌈

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

  • Makefile::Parser::GmakeDB
  • Makefile::AST
  • Makefile::AST::Evaluator

iykyk, those three are the whole squad 🍓

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋 this one's running on perl v5.42.0 and it was dated 2025-07-25 — slay, stay de-sugared, and don't forget to pipe your makefile through it ✨🎀🦋

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