Make not just for compilation

[Thomas Cort]

Hi,

I just wanted to let you all know that GNU Make is one of my favorite 
programs, and you all are awesome for producing such a high quality piece 
of Free Software. However, not too many people are aware that you can use 
make in a non-programming context. Below is an Makefile for audio 
re-encoding. It decodes and encodes all files of a given suffix in the 
current directory. Feel free to use it on websites, in books, anywhere.

-Tom

PS: Plz cc any replies as I am not subscribed to this list.

# 1337 Audio Re-encoder Makefile
# Copyright (C) 2004 Thomas Cort
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 

DECODER = shorten
DFLAGS  = -x
DSUF    = .shn

FILES = $(wildcard *$(DSUF))

ENCODER = flac
EFLAGS  = -8
ESUF    = .flac

RSUF  = .wav

all: decode encode
        echo "done"

decode: $(FILES:$(DSUF)=$(RSUF))

encode: $(FILES:$(DSUF)=$(ESUF))

.SUFFIXES: $(RSUF) $(ESUF)
$(RSUF)$(ESUF):
        $(ENCODER) $(EFLAGS) $<
        rm -f $<

.SUFFIXES: $(DSUF) $(RSUF)
$(DSUF)$(RSUF):
        $(DECODER) $(DFLAGS) $<