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by banish-m4 785 days ago
For simple things, make is fine. It does file caching and the GNU tool does parallel concurrency.

For anything needing light-to-moderate software configuration management, cmake is readily available and simple.

If you're running a Google then you're using a build and DVCS that make use of extensive caching, synthetic filesystems, and tools that wrap other tools.

I won't say what not to use. ;)