Steve Downey <sdowney_at_[hidden]> writes:

> [...] but the description of dependency could be produced as a
> side-effect of compilation, and would not affect the shape of
> the graph.

Unless the dependencies are auto-generated, right?

You may disagree, but at this day and age I don't think you
can call a build system that cannot handle auto-generated
headers modern or general-purpose.


> a build system generator

Not every build system is a meta-build system (and thus has a
a generator and all the problems and limitations stemming from
it). In fact, if you look at modern build systems (Bazel, Buck2,
build2), none of them are meta-build systems.