There are many ways where you only need to care about the local scope, you don't need to use a single monolithic makefile. See e.g. https://github.com/dmouldin

There are many ways where you only need to care about the local scope, you don't need to use a single monolithic makefile. See e.g. https://github.com/dmoulding/boilermake https://github.com/dmoulding/boilermake It is harder than it should be though.