Makefiles

Keep build rules in small, focused fragments while you work, then use makefile build to hand someone one self-contained Makefile. The command expands include and -include lines recursively and collapses repeated blank lines.

# release.mk
include make/common.mk
-include make/local.mk
 
release:
	@echo ready

maintainer makefile build release.mk
# Output: dist/release/Makefile

Pass several paths to build each separately. With no arguments, the command reads one input path per line from standard input:

printf 'release.mk\ndocs.mk\n' | maintainer makefile build

include must resolve to a readable file relative to the working directory or the build fails. A missing -include file is skipped. Avoid include cycles: this version has no cycle detection. The command does not run make; it writes bundled files under dist/<input filename without extension>/Makefile. Inputs with the same base filename use the same output directory, so give them distinct names when building together.