Poetry and Makefile

[brunolnetto]

Poetry is built to manage packages, we know that. There is other thing that handle development processes well: Makefile! On my learning process, I wrote a file to organize the main development workflows.

The commands make setup and make install works as expected with sudo-permission. The command make enable outputs the log error below. I do now know why the previous two commands work but this do not.

make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'poetry', needed by 'enable'.  Stop.

@neersighted It is a great question, isn't it?

[dimbleby]

because you got the makefile wrong.

explaining makefiles is very far off topic for a poetry discussion but you want target, then prerequisites, then recipe. You've written the recipe where the prerequisites should go.

[brunolnetto]

The following answer will sound sarcastic, interpret as not: I really want to know what on-topic means in computer science, since most solutions are a combination of tools and practices.

May you inform or forward some reference for me to consult? Or even suggest a fix for given Makefile?

[dimbleby]

You are asking this question in the discussion space for the poetry project. "On-topic" would be discussion about poetry.

https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html

it should be very easy to find such things for yourself.

[brunolnetto]

Yes, the internet content is some words away and "common knowledge" is way too uncommon than we may think. I thank for your effort to point the proper instructions. As advice, skip the remark "it should be very easy to find such things for yourself."

[mapsa]

enable: poetry shell

A bit too late but your enable target is wrong. It is saying poetry is a dependency. The Makefile will try to build your dependencies and it is expecting to build your poetry target that doesn't exist (it will also try to create a shell target after which is also wrong).
It should be:

enable:
<tab> poetry shell

I have created a simple guidelines for Makefiles here https://github.com/mapsa/makefile-examples in case it helps. I would include phony targets too (enable is one).

[brunolnetto]

Outstanding. I would read regex explanation as well. :-)