[Automake-ng] What’s Wrong With GNU make?

[Bob Friesenhahn]

Quite by accident (Google hit) I ran across this paper which describes 
what is wrong with GNU make:

  http://www.conifersystems.com/whitepapers/gnu-make/

While I would add more (different) greviances, the paper seems to be 
pretty accurate and describes many issues I had not thought of before.

Presumably Automake NG will try to work-around many of these 
shortcomings of GNU make even though it is based on GNU make.  A 
proper fix would require improvements to GNU make itself, or even a 
new build tool.

Bob
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