axxackall's Journal: Some alternatives to ant/make

Some alternatives to ant/make are

• cook [auug.org.au] (probably the best contender),
• Mk [pzi.net] (which is like bitkeeper+make),
• Jam [freetype.org],
• cake [mu.oz.au] (does anyone use this any more?), and
• the Plan 9 mk [cminusminus.org].

There's also something called Cons, but it needs perl to work. See this [gnu.org].

I haven't found a good alternative to autoconf yet. There used to be Metaconfig, but I don't know who maintains it any more (or where). It produces configure scripts similar to what you see when you configure perl. This guy [cr.yp.to] uses some unreleased software package for his build systems that tend to work really well -- for C code under Unix.