make is useful, when you stay within its confines. However, it quickly turns into a morass the moment you want to do something outside of it. I tried, and I g

make is useful, when you stay within its confines. However, it quickly turns into a morass the moment you want to do something outside of it. I tried, and I gave up. I ended up coding something similar to make, in python. I just funneled some of my commands to the shell module.