[siteshwar]

> a new build system replacing one that already worked fine.

Have you actually tried the legacy build system before making that comment ? If not, I would suggest you to try that. It's by far the worst build system I ever dealt with. Just to give you an example, if there's a compilation failure in the middle of build process, build system will not stop, it will continue to compile everything that it should not compile and then exit with status 0. There was an absolute need to replace it with something newer.

Replacing the build system is just the first step towards improving the code base and it's not the end of it.

[nn3]

yes i built ast quite a few times. nmake always worked fine.

[siteshwar]

I was doing lot of refactoring around ksh93 code and legacy build system was not really helpful in detecting problems. It was best to change it.