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		What’s Wrong With GNU make? (futurechips.org)
		6 points by tech_junkie on Aug 24, 2011 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

nwmcsween on Aug 25, 2011 [–]

There's more than just GNU make, autotools is a mess as well and the coreutils code has many features but the code is still a nightmare to look at.. GNU doesn't really have a great track record for readable or extendable code but I guess this is due to the age as well.

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