I created Lake a couple of years ago, which allows one to create ones makefile in C++.
A header and footer are added to the makefile, and it's then compiled using ones C++ compiler. Afther that it's run, and that's the point where ones other sources are compiled.
It was inspired by Icmake (by my C++ prof). It never really caught on (I didn't really promote it), but I still think it wasn't a terrible idea (apart, maybe, from it being language specific).
A header and footer are added to the makefile, and it's then compiled using ones C++ compiler. Afther that it's run, and that's the point where ones other sources are compiled.
It was inspired by Icmake (by my C++ prof). It never really caught on (I didn't really promote it), but I still think it wasn't a terrible idea (apart, maybe, from it being language specific).
Lake: http://www.logilogi.org/pub/lake/README.LAKE.txt, http://sourceforge.net/projects/logilogi/files/lake/ Icmake: http://icmake.sourceforge.net/