Non-recursive make considered harmful: build systems at scale
Andrey Mokhov, Neil Mitchell, Simon Peyton Jones, Simon Marlow · 2016
Most build systems start small and simple, but over time grow into hairy monsters that few dare to touch. As we demonstrate in this paper, there are a few issues that cause build systems major scalability challenges, and many pervasively used build systems (e.g. Make) do not scale well.