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KeybukMake (for lack of a better term) is an idea that ScottJamesRemnant and MartinPitt are working on. Basically it's a replacement for autoconf, automake, libtool, etc. that fixes much that is wrong with those systems.

Possible Features:

• simple, clean, consistent syntax
• rules file per-directory
• support both recursive and non-recursive builds
• support parallel builds
• may not rely on auto-generated output

• "All the world must be Linux by now" design, we don't need to support 1920s-era AIX

Ways of doing it (pick one):

• configure-like program to write Makefiles
• make-like program to read rules and build program
• magic Makefile rules (cdbs-like?)

Existing systems which do not look crackful right from the start:

• bjam

• makeit

• scons (seems to be powerful, used by KDE, but rules are written in Python code, so they aren't very readable)

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