Here's a paper titled "Non-recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale" It has a pretty good overview of the what the goals of a build system sho

Here's a paper titled "Non-recursive Make Considered Harmful: Build Systems at Scale" It has a pretty good overview of the what the goals of a build system should be, and section 7 compares several different build systems http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/226639/BA1AC951-8C2E-46C8-92F1-74FA95507892.pdf http://eprint.ncl.ac.uk/file_store/production/226639/BA1AC95...