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Re:Please – A cross-language build system by jedberg on Saturday November 28, 2020 @02:52PM (#25239981)
I think one good way to think about it is all of these build systems create Make environments. They create the makefiles and have all the other tools that go with it.

So at the end of the day you end up with an executable artifact, but hopefully you did a lot less work to get there.

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Re:Please – A cross-language build system by patrec on Saturday November 28, 2020 @06:42PM (#25241567)
Only garbage like autotools or CMake generates Makefiles, all remotely sane build systems (including the various bazel/blaze derivatives) do away with make, which even sucks as a low level abstraction.
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