This paper has a lot of great information: http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf Basically, the way most projects use

This paper has a lot of great information: http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf http://aegis.sourceforge.net/auug97.pdf Basically, the way most projects use make (recursive make) creates a whole lot of problems. This can be fixed while still using make, but if you're already revamping your entire build system, you might as well move to something that offers additional niceties like the ones mentioned in the article: better error messages, progress report, machine readable output, etc.