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+ \subsection{Make}
+ 
+ I have to admit: I \emph{hate} \cmd{make} along with its foes: \cmd{autoconf},
+ \cmd{automake}, \cmd{configure} and what not. The latter try to tame a broken
+ beast but become as loathable under its influence. The former, of course,
+ \emph{is} the broken beast.
+ 
+ Now, this is not to say that the \cmd{make} utility is not useful; however,
+ the extremely terse and little forgiving syntax of makefiles makes it a pain
+ to work with, even for experienced users. Also its inherent reliance on functionality provided by the
+ underlying shell makes it next to impossible to create a common build framework
+ for \OS projects being built on various operating systems that do \emph{not}
+ necessarily happen to be \texttt{posix} or have all sorts of *nix fileutils installed.
+ 
  XXX ToDo XXX
+ 
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+ \subsection{The ``Recursive Make'' problem}
+ 
+ See:
  \URL{http://www.tip.net.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html}