[gyepi]

I completely agree with the sentiment of the article. Makefiles are a form of documentation. However, I no longer use make in new projects and instead use redux [1]: my implementation of djb redo. It manages the dependencies and you write your scripts in shell. Simple, straightforward and easy. No more 'make -B', no more make contortions.

[1] https://github.com/gyepisam/redux

[andreypopp]

I thought with make you also write scripts in shell.

[gyepi]

Yes, you're right. However, in redo, you don't have a Makefile equivalent and, instead, specify the dependencies in the shell script that generates your target. Basically, the configuration language is shell (or any other program that can be invoked from a shell script).