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