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   From: marc.glisse@gmail.com   
      
   Mathias Gaunard  wrote:   
      
   > Few people still write Makefiles by hand in this day and age.   
   > Most people use autotools, jam, CMake, SCons or lesser-known build   
   > systems. (the last two can generate Visual Studio project and solution   
   > files)   
      
   You may want to be careful with "most people"'s opinion. Most people I   
   know consider autotools and cmake as obfuscating tools that make it   
   harder to achieve things. First level is knowing what command line you   
   want executed. Second level is writing a makefile such that make will   
   execute that. Third level is getting cmake to create a such a   
   makefile. Etc. And each layer adds new ways in which things can fail.   
      
   (I am not saying those tools don't have their uses, just that "many"   
   people try to avoid them and only reluctantly use them when they have   
   no choice)   
      
      
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