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Re:Please – A cross-language build system by ironmagma on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:37PM (#25239873)
The problem with Make is that it’s never just Make. It’s also Autoconf, Automake, m4, and god-knows-what-else. If Make is so great, why are people resorting to generating the Makefiles? There’s clearly some kind of deep UX problem there.
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Re:Please – A cross-language build system by ur-whale on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:54PM (#25239994)
> Autoconf, Automake, m4

all of which are even worse than make itself.

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