Makefiles

99999.99999% of the time, a shell script would work better. Why do we need this garbage? Don't claim it's for standardization, because any program worth compiling in the first place is going to accept the standard parameters.

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CMake is great for application level stuff, but I've yet to see a really impressive build tool for systems software that wasn't make based. If you're doing anything that entails exotic CFLAGS, custom linker scripts, binary format conversions, etc. higher level build tools just get in the way.