[andreineculau]

From GNU Make webpage:

> GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.

What is idiosyncratic is to think Make is first a command runner, and only after a file generator, and complain that it is doing a poor job at the former when it clearly says it is focusing on the latter.

I read the "idiosyncrasies" section on the just README and they are all performance related targeting file generation. All of those can be learned in one minute, as part of "I'll always find Makefiles in the wild, it's good to know the basics".