Yes. Recursing your Makefiles produces poor results. You know who hasn't read the Make manual and makes recursive Makefiles? The cmake devs. If you truly need

Yes. Recursing your Makefiles produces poor results. You know who hasn't read the Make manual and makes recursive Makefiles? The cmake devs. If you truly need a lot of complexity, you can end up with unreadable Makefiles, as you say. Most projects don't need a lot of build logic, though. I have lots of projects using mrbuild, and their builds are clear and easily maintainable. If you truly need a lot more, then Make might not be the best choice. And you can do much better than cmake