[kodablah]

Despite the downvotes, it is reasonable to write the project build script/workflow in an easy-to-read, cross-platform language. Makefiles often devolve into shell scripts or use of autotools in very slow and not-cross-platform ways. This becomes more spaghetti as you build dependencies between/across projects.

Lately with projects that do several things on build, I include a build.go and ask users to just `go run build.go [command]`. I get many features built in, it's quite maintainable and cross platform, etc. Even if it calls out to other makefiles or build scripts, at least you can centralize it and do different things per OS or whatever.