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Users consistently praise the flexibility and automation that GNU Make offers for managing project dependencies and build processes. Many appreciate its strong community support and extensive documentation, which help navigate its complexities. However, some note that the learning curve can be steep, particularly for those new to command-line tools.
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Nexus W.
NW
Web Developer
Internet
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Works well."
What do you like best about GNU Make?

GNU make works well and gets the job done. It is also free and Open source. What more can you ask for?

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What do you dislike about GNU Make?

Limited support for “if” conditionals. (Conditional statements are especially important in cross-platform makefiles.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Powerful and Universal"
What do you like best about GNU Make?

Free and open source with decades worth of community support. From defining dependencies to rebuilding projects, make makes it easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

Documentation is cumbersome and advanced features are plentiful, making it even more of a pain to optimize and efficiently use make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Retail
UR
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Somewhat complex but rewarding tool."
What do you like best about GNU Make?

Without a doubt the best thing about GNU Make is the ability to update any source file and the dependent files are regenerated with practically any effort. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

Although it is an amazing tool, it can get slightly complex to use it to its full potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Build packages without worrying about dependcies"
What do you like best about GNU Make?

This makes software development relatively easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

Sometimes too much scripting is required compared to C Make. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
UH
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Automating large programming projects"
What do you like best about GNU Make?

Ability to recompile any language that runs in a shell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

No support for non shell languages, which would be nice to have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Defense & Space
UD
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Common/portable system to build projects."
What do you like best about GNU Make?

The tool is free and open source.

There is plenty of free tutorials online to help with troubleshooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

With a big project, things get complex very quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Miguel Angel A.
MA
Instructor Professor
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"A very useful tool for compilation and task automation."
What do you like best about GNU Make?

The best thing about GNU Make is how it integrates with the user's installed shell commands and applications. This makes it great to write batch processing scripts for all sort of tasks, beyond just compilation automation. It also makes automatic timestamp checking of produced files so that it doesn't have to repeat steps unnecessarily. It also has support for parallel execution of tasks.

Also, it's command language is simpler than Microsoft's BAT and other shell script formats, a plus for writing scripts manually.

Since GNU Make (and UNIX make tool by extension) are old and time-tested tools there is also lot's of support for it, with things like libtool, automake and Cmake helping with the generation of makefiles for complex compilation workflows. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

It's an integral part of the UNIX compilation workflow so using it outside of UNIX systems (namely Windows) is complicated. There are alternatives like Mingw32-make and Cygwin that attempt to solve this problem, however. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
GC
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple Automation TOol"
What do you like best about GNU Make?

I can easily describe the dependencies of my project, and then Make will automatically rebuild any that have changed dependencies – it makes partial builds extremely simple. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

Some of the advanced features are difficult to use, and the documentation is often hard to navigate through. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rodrigo P.
RP
Evangelista
Banking
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"I use daily the make tool to compile programs"
What do you like best about GNU Make?

Make is a very simple tool with a lot of functions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GNU Make?

The documentation for the tool is very antique. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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