Ugg... autotools. Yeah, lets use what feel like build tools created way back in the 60's or something. Sure they "work" for some value of "work" but oh boy are they ugly and nasty. Good luck hiring anybody under the age of 40 who is gonna be willing to work on such a clunky old tool.
There is a reason why the world is moving to build systems that replace the Make toolchain.
For something that isn't JVM-based?
The industry has moved to language-specific build tools and ecosystems, and the article and is complaining about this in part, no?
and you've already made sure they are running the same JRE version, right?
And can it do it all incrementally in parallel too please because enterprise shops tend to have a ton of code
Oh and it would be really nice if you could make it so if someone else somewhere in the org has compiled that thing then could we just use their computed binary to save the time compiling locally.
THANKS!
;)
My challenge to you: I want a makefile that has 20 third party dependencies and can be built on osx, linux, and windows.
I can do this within an hour with gradle, ant, or maven. The ecosystem doesn't exist for this in make, and anything I could come up with to make it possible would end up being a tool that would look like automake and the monstrosity that it entails.