Make Make Tool

A MakeMakeTool is a tool which will automate the construction of makefiles.

Examples:

• GNU automake
• imake
• CMake
  • http://www.cmake.org/HTML/Index.html
• Generates makefiles for a variety of make implementations and MSVisualStudio workspaces. Good for cross-platform projects to avoid the difficulty of maintaining multiple parallel build systems.

RakeMake

• A RubyLanguage tool to generate makefiles. Seems to use a neat OO approach to building the dependency graph.

All dependency tools like fastdep, makedep, ocamldep, ...

Some say that such tools are AddingEpicycles to work around the inherent intractability of make, and that a better approach is to replace make entirely.

See MakeTool, MakeProgram.