Going to throw out my 2 cents here: 1. I don't like multiple makefiles. Icky with lots of duplication and high maintenance. Bad article. 2. When possible I us

Going to throw out my 2 cents here: 1. I don't like multiple makefiles. Icky with lots of duplication and high maintenance. Bad article. 2. When possible I use target expansion to generate targets in the main makefile: APPS:= app1 app2 app3 $(APPS:%=build.%) 3. I prefer to use makefile functions rather than reaching for "bash" where possible: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Functions.html#Functions https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Functions... 4. If something is really complicated - extract to bash Make has been written in 10K languages and the original is still the best