Minion

Minion is a Make-based build tool designed to enable build descriptions that are:

• Lightweight

  Minion does not pollute your project with external dependencies. Projects need to include just one file, minion.mk, and it depends only on GNU Make 3.81 or higher.

• Maintainable

  Builds are described in a declarative style. Classes and inheritance provide for elegant, concise, DRY descriptions. Makefiles generally need not concern themselves with output file locations.

• Fast

  Minion supports cached (pre-compiled) makefiles. There is usually no need for make clean after changes to Makefiles; only the affected targets need to be rebuilt. Minion significantly speeds up Make's rule processing by disabling its implicit rules, which are unneeded, given Minion's functionality.

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