PLMAKE(1)

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version 0.216 · 2 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

plmake — bestie, it's an experimental make utility built on top of Makefile::Parser. Yes it's giving science-fair-project, and yes we love her anyway 🧪✨

🌸 VERSION 🌸

This page is all about plmake 0.14, which dropped on March 10, 2007. Vintage, iconic, lowkey a time capsule 🎀

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

$ plmake
$ plmake test
$ plmake -f Makefile all

That's the whole vibe. Three little lines. No cap 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so real talk: plmake is mostly a vibe check. Its whole job is to be a quick way to see what Makefile::Parser can and cannot handle — like a little test kitchen for the parser 🍓

Do NOT use this in production. The manpage literally begs you not to, and we respect the boundaries. Fr fr. 🙈

💀 LIMITATIONS 💀

Not to be dramatic but the underlying Makefile::Parser has quite a lot of them. Like, a lot a lot. Here's the receipts:

  • Directives are not supported. Not a thing. Don't even try it, bestie 😭
  • Double colon rules don't work. They simply do not. 💀
  • Multi-target rules are not supported. One target at a time, she's monogamous 🫶
  • .PHONY is not supported. That's it, that's the bullet.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Zhang "agentzh" Yichun — agentzh@gmail.com 💌

Copyright (c) 2007 by Zhang "agentzh" Yichun. All rights reserved.

This program is free-software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. So go off, remix it, it's yours 🦋✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • Makefile::Parser
  • gvmake
  • pmake

The whole friend group. Go say hi 👯‍♀️

Okay that's the page, bestie! This was perl v5.42.0 energy, dated 2025-07-25, and it's a PLMAKE(1) situation — User Contributed Perl Documentation, if you were wondering. Mwah, stay parsed 💖💅🎀

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