You have a bunch of related applications, each has their own Makefile that knows only about their own application, but you have dependencies where one app needs to be built before another. Here’s a skeleton bash script for building any one thing or everything.

#!/bin/bash

function build {
echo "*** …

I like it. It’s so simple and flexible. Define it with none, then assign sys.argv in place of argv.

If you check the contents of a post variable that never got passed, you get warnings. If you like keeping your verbosity set that high and want to avoid this warning, or you just want to avoid checking against a non-existent variable, try this