Yes. Make is a build system. Cmake is also a build system that leverages make. This means that from the perspective of a user of cmake, make is a component/depe

Yes. Make is a build system. Cmake is also a build system that leverages make. This means that from the perspective of a user of cmake, make is a component/dependency/part of cmake. make can be used independently, and is absolutely developed independently, of cmake. But when you remove a dependency of a tool you can expect the tool to stop working. That doesn't mean that the tool doesn't do what it says it does.