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make loses as soon as you start doing anything the slightest bit complicated --- recursive makefiles, ew. Plus, it doesn't understand C dependencies. And the way it tries (and fails) to guess what you want to do is awful. Scons loses because it seems to me to be overly complex and requires the end user to install Python. Ant loses because it's written in Java. All the other build systems I looked at suffered from the same problems.
I can't tell you how much I agree you here. Everytime I've tried to use make to build a project of any size that uses subdirectories, it has been a nightmare of looking at GNU's make documentation and wondering who on earth made such an esoteric beast. I wonder if the people making this kind of software have any kind of human qualities about them, especially common sense with respect to how people interact with software. The terminology and syntax is so difficult to wrap your mind around and it doesn't have to be this way. I'm looking forward to trying PM out. wes