in reply to OT Sick of make, is there a replacement?
cmake has been suggested a few times above. I recently(ish) rewrote a nasty old imake-based build system on a program into cmake, and found it a reasonable pleasant experience; managing and expanding it since then has failed to be totally miserable. I also replaced another custom make-based build system with cmake, and that went smoothly.
Of course, cmake is both much more and somewhat less than a make replacement, so depending on just what you're doing, it may be a godsend or a nightmare. If you're looking purely as a building-this-software-package system, it's probably pretty well suited. If you're using make as a more general scripting / automation solution, maybe not so much.
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Re^2: OT Sick of make, is there a replacement?
by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 06, 2015 at 06:37 UTC | |
by fullermd (Priest) on Aug 07, 2015 at 00:23 UTC |