[bfLives]

I think this is exactly the intended use case for Ninja. It’s discussed in this recently posted article.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42268310

[pdimitar]

Thanks. That article is fairly disappointing for not having even one simple example file though...

[tjalfi]

Julia Evans has a Ninja introduction[0] with simple examples. I tried it for awhile, but ended up going back to GNU Make.

[0] https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/10/26/ninja--a-simple-way-to-do-bu...