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Uuuuuuugh I am looking forward to `make_target` going away…

going away in favor of? i have used it maybe once in a PR that's gotten merged but can't immediately see what the issue is looking at the method

What `make_target` does is constructs a target hoping that its arguments are correct.

Unfortunately, the `sources` arg (and a few others) are in real code 100% of the time set by the engine to a more complex value than people ever pass to `make_target`, which means that those tests are not actually representative of real code

The replacement is to add your target’s definition to a BUILD file (using `add_to_build_file`) and then request that the engine parses out the target (using `target`)