I had been fighting with Makefiles for a very long time, and I never really got beyond finding a boilerplate makefile, and changing it to just barely accomplish

I had been fighting with Makefiles for a very long time, and I never really got beyond finding a boilerplate makefile, and changing it to just barely accomplish what I wanted to do. A while ago, I found Tup thanks to HN: http://gittup.org/tup/ http://gittup.org/tup/ In under an hour of documentation reading, I was writing tupfiles that were more functional than any makefile I had written in years. Also really neat: since tup can monitor the file system, you can set up a monitor to auotmatically rebuild the project every time you change something. Super handy and super easy with tup.