GNU Make is such an essential tool that it is almost impossible to imagine working without it. Not having it, developers would probably have to resort to doing everything manually or via shell scripts.

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Josh Call

Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oct 24, 2024

The initial setup of GNU Make is straightforward.

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it_user1065

Senior Manager of Data Center at a integrator with 51-200 employees

Jul 3, 2012

Poor reliability for larger or incremental builds.

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it_user1158

Developer at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 15, 2012

Make’s reliability is very poor and is not suitable for larger or incremental builds.

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it_user1227

Tech Support Staff at a tech company with 51-200 employees

Jul 23, 2012

GNU make is a bad candidate for builds that require incremental builds often, as it does not support this feature.

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it_user790461

Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Dec 18, 2017

GNU Make requires using the Tab symbol as the first symbol of command line for execution. In some text editors this can be problematic, as they automatically insert spaces instead of tabs.

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it_user790464

Software Engineer at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Dec 18, 2017

Vanilla GNU Make does not support any kind of colored output. A wrapper named colormake exists to work around this, but native (opt-in) support would be welcome.

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Josh Call

Software Engineer at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

Oct 24, 2024

GNU Make does not provide traditional customer support.

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