I also like Makefiles, but some design choices are really dated. My latest gripe with it was its extremely poor support for filenames with spaces and special c

I also like Makefiles, but some design choices are really dated. My latest gripe with it was its extremely poor support for filenames with spaces and special chars (;) in them: I just wanted to convert a flac library to MP3 files, it seemed well suited for the job at first glance. I don't know what tool could be a proper replacement. scons perhaps? ninja files are too verbose. just doesn't do dependencies, job control, etc.