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Re:Qake: GNU Make-based build system with a different approach by mkpankov on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @07:19AM (#8556159)
I ended up using $(eval ...) a lot, and turns out Make's support for it is... suboptimal.

As for paper - I believe it's "Recursive Make Considered Harmful" - I read it, it's great. Was one of the main motivators during build system rewrite.

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Re:Qake: GNU Make-based build system with a different approach by dlundqvist on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @07:42AM (#8556239)
Three or four levels down in $(eval ...) and $(call ...) still makes me stop and think how many $ I should have.

Yes, that's the paper, I was also heavily motivated by it. And when I read JDK also switched[1] to something similar, it just cemented my belief it was the right way to go, for the same reasons as for them.

[1] - http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/138

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