What: make
 Where: various locations
        http://www.gnu.org/software/make/make.html
 Description: This command takes files describing relationships
        between files and describes actions to take to transform
        files from one format into another when the file's timestamp
        indicates that such a transformation is needed.
        One such implementation of this command is the GNU Make,
        pointed to by the fsf.org link above.
        Currently, gnu make is at version 3.80 .
 Updated: 09/2004
 Contact: See web site

Among tools useful for dealing with make are the 
remake 
[http://bashdb.sourceforge.net/remake] debugger.
Also see "Debugging Makefiles"
[http://www.ddj.com/dept/debug/197003338]
for valuable tips on coercing Make to introspect.
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See also [gnu], [MaMa], [Mkdepend], [PADE], [PVM], [tmk], 
[UltraMake], ...

Also of interest as a model is Ruby's Rake
[http://rake.rubyforge.org/]
project, a [domain-specific language] intended to
be a functional substitute for Make.
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[Tcl]-based (all [pure-Tcl]?) contestants:  [tclmake],
[bras], [smake], [A Little Make Replacement],
the [make library], 
...

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"What's wrong with Make", or, more formally, "Getting Started 
with SCons" 
[http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=9900/ur0510m/].
Also, Andy Oram wrote a nice, "make: The Evolution and Alternatives"
[http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/18/gnumake_3e.html].


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