If the author of the article believes that the example Makefile isn’t simple, he needs to learn Make, for that example is TRIVIAL. Learn UNIX tools people, the

If the author of the article believes that the example Makefile isn’t simple, he needs to learn Make, for that example is TRIVIAL. Learn UNIX tools people, they’re excellent tools developed by masters with the amount of knowledge, experience and insight very few of you will ever amass (don’t think “ah! But I’m better!” for that way lie pain, misery and a build process of nightmares), and they work the way they do for multiple reasons. When it comes to build engines, Make is the real deal: sufficiently simple to get started right away, infinitely flexible to do whatever one needs when it comes to automated / intelligent building, with lots of useful built-in rules “out of the box”. In this case the problem isn’t in the tool, but in one’s own capabilities as a programmer.