Make Make Tool

A MakeMakeTool is a tool which will automate the construction of makefiles.

Examples:

• GNU automake
• imake
• CMake
  • http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
  • Generates makefiles for a variety of make implementations and MSVisualStudio workspaces. Good for cross-platform projects to avoid the difficulty of maintaining multiple parallel build systems.
• RakeMake
  • A RubyLanguage tool to generate makefiles. Seems to use a neat OO approach to building the dependency graph.
• All dependency tools like fastdep, makedep, ocamldep, ...

Some say that such tools are AddingEpicycles to work around the inherent intractability of make, and that a better approach is to replace make entirely.

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See MakeTool, MakeProgram.