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> The Ada model is indeed clean, simple and reliable.  Sometimes, it is
> necessary to supplement it to provide preprocessing facilities, or to
> select the units to be compiled from a CM system.  Simple scripts or
> minimalistic makefiles can do that.

Yeah. And nowadays makefiles is mostly used as an output language from 
Configure. Write-only makefiles. Completely unreadable and 
unmantainable. And in my experience, more often than not these 
makefiles don't work. For example, building Graphviz, or ZLib on a Mac 
OS X. I end up studying the macrostructure of the code (the C units, 
which ones are libraries, which ones are programs) and then compiling 
by hand, or writing a small, readable makefile by hand, and eventually 
using Libtool (and sometimes Ranlib, another idiotic tool). For me 
Configure was a waste of time. Its 72-page manual is in the bin.