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Re:Why Use Make by eliben on Sunday February 24, 2013 @05:26PM (#5276200)
As the assembly language of build systems, I agree that Make works well. But there, IMHO, its utility ends.
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Re:Why Use Make by Game_Ender on Sunday February 24, 2013 @07:31PM (#5276660)
I would say if fares rather poorly when you compare it something like ninja (http://martine.github.com/ninja/) which is made to be generated by tools Gyp or CMake. I have used the CMake+ninja combination on large projects and it lives up the hype.
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