gankra

@gankra

gay cat who writes your docs

Author of The Rustonomicon and Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists. Also I made a lot of homestuck's games.

Making rust meta-devtools at axo.dev

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reminder that rust's build system used to be all makefiles

and contained this absolute gem that baffled tons of incredible engineers for years https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/commit/fca66702a44038b14d8f9bd282ad56c04e9fdcf6

# XXX: Don't remove the $(nop) command below!
# Yeah, that's right, it's voodoo. Something in the way this macro is being expanded
# causes it to parse incorrectly. Throwing in that empty command seems to fix the
# problem. I'm sorry, just don't remove the $(nop), alright?
define PREPARE_LIB
	$(nop)
	@$(call E, prepare: $(PREPARE_WORKING_DEST_LIB_DIR)/$(1))
    ...
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