Uncommon Build

A curiously uncommon build framework... 🧐

WTF?

uncommon-build is a set of handcrafted GNU Makefile includes for building software projects. It may be installed as a git submodule to enable your project Makefiles to be more trim, elegant, and classy. 🤵‍♂️

Prequisites

• An initialized git repo
• Ability to create a file in this repo: .uncommon-build-init.mk
• GNU make command
• Bash shell
  • bash command must be available
  • Not necessarily as your default shell
• POSIX shell utilities: sed, grep, echo, cd, rm, mkdir, awk, sort, find, xargs, basename

How Do That?! 🤔

The simple way to accomplish this, naturally, is to add the following file to your repo: .uncommon-build-init.mk $^{...You\ \textbf{\textit{doOo} \ have\ a\ git\ repo\ already,\ yes?}$

curl -Ls -o .uncommon-build-init.mk https://bit.ly/3K5HcJO

Then, one must simply 🤌 add the following line to your Makefile:

include .uncommon-build-init.mk

This single include line should generally be placed at the top of your Makefile. However, if one wishes to configure any variables or override defaults, then one must do so before including main.mk.

Finally, one must run:

make stylish

What Does It Do? 🙋

This short GNU Makefile code snippet creates a target + recipe, stylish to install via make stylish. It's recommended to use the dot . prefix for .uncommon-build-init.mk, so the installation is as unobtrusive and tucked away as possible. This also allows for an elegant one-liner in your main Makefile: include .uncommon-build-init.mk

The recipe checks for existence of .uncommon-build, and installs it if not found.

If .uncommon-build is found, the .gitmodules definition is updated. If the .uncommon-build directory is missing the submodule will be added for you, and will be automatically committed.

Default Targets: This Makefile framework creates some basic targets for use when building Docker images:

• help: Output all make targets with help text. Hint: Add your own help text by appending ## Help text here, Or prevent a target from showing up in help by appending: ## no-help to the recipe definition line (e.g.: foo: foo.c ## no-help)
• build: Builds the Docker image
• save-image: Saves the Docker image via docker save. Output defaults to: $(top_builddir)/.uncommon-build-stamps/$(REPO_NAME).tar
• push: Pushes the Docker image to a Registry. Default: docker.io/$(REPO_NAME):$(IMAGE_TAG) where IMAGE_TAG is a 12-character short commit SHA
• compile: Compile the project's source files.

Language Specific Includes: When using specific programming languages, set $(PROJECT_LANG) before including main.mk. The list of supported languages will grow over time. Currently supported languages are:

• go: GoLang

Updating the .uncommon-build Submodule

To automatically update uncommon-build to latest, run:

make update-uncommon-build

This target executes the following steps:

1. Change directory into the .uncommon-build submodule folder: cd .uncommon-build
2. Fetch & Update the git submodule to latest
3. Commit the .uncommon-build and .gitmodules file changes.

NOTE: If you need to update uncommon-build to some version different than origin/main branch, set the UNCOMMON_BUILD_REF variable. This accepts any git ref. For example: a branch name, tag, or commit SHA.