Build System Schism: The Curse of Meta Build Systems
Assumed Audience: Programmers and anyone who has used a build system. Discuss on Hacker News and Reddit. Epistemic Status: Confident. This post is meant to be informative, but it does have an ad at the end, which will be clearly marked. You have been warned! Introduction First there was nothing… …then there was make. As the legend goes, Stuart Feldman was working at Bell Labs, and he had a problem....