Recursive Make Considered Harmful
Miller - An argument against using recursive make techniques in the presence of cyclic dependencies among project subdir
ectories.
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-har
m.html
Smart ABS Now
Codefast - A distributed software build generator that dynamically calculates and executes scalable, distributed software builds for building N source trees on N platforms. No human labor is required for distributed builds. Features knowledge base with 15 years of build experience, makefile generator, dependency calculations, parallel and distributed builds, multilanguage, multisite, runs on 21 platforms, extensible.
http://www.codefast.com/z-products/z-sanow/software-builds-s
anow.html
Odin
Freeware - A make replacement featuring dependency scanning, viewpaths, distributed rsh execution, cached derived files, variant builds, conditional directives, and an Odin rule la
nguage.
ftp://ftp.cs.colorado.edu/pub/distribs/odin
Imake
Freeware - Generates traditional makefiles by using the CPP preprocessor and makedepend programs to assemble makefiles from templates and Imakefile control files. From the MIT X11
project.
http://www.kitebird.com/imake-book/
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