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Checkinstall to create deb or rpm package out of source installs which you can easily remove with your package manager again. (But this only keeps track of the installed files, doesn't do any dependency tracking). Source: over 2 years ago
There is also checkinstall which you run instead of make install. It creates a (simple) RPM package for you. You can remove that package with your package manager later on for easy uninstallation. Source: almost 3 years ago
Checkinstall is a rather popular way of dealing with self compiled packages. Source: about 3 years ago
Under the hood, Rescript uses a build system called Ninja. Ninja is similar to Make, but cross-platform and more minimal/performant. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago
Ninja was super easy to pick up even after using make for some time (10+ years). GN is just a ninja generator that is optional. https://gn.googlesource.com/gn/+/main/docs/quick_start.md https://ninja-build.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
Really? I thought most new projects were switching to ninja[^1] and have never used it. [^1]: https://ninja-build.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
Ninja showed real promise for a while, but then CMake grew up and people stopped seeing a reason to leave it behind. Source: 10 months ago
Now that you have your build system all generated you can go ahead and build everything. By default Meson will use Ninja as the build tool. Ninja is similar to Make but much much faster. You can also generate additional build systems but that's outside of the scope of this post. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago
Porg - Porg (formerly known as paco), is a program to aid management of software packages installed from source code.
GNU Make - GNU Make is a tool which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files of a program from the program's source files.
SCons - SCons is an Open Source software construction tool—that is, a next-generation build tool.
Advanced Package Tool - Apt (for Advanced Package Tool) is a set of core tools inside Debian.
Meson - Meson is an open source build system meant to be both extremely fast, and, even more importantly...
CMake - CMake is an open-source, cross-platform family of tools designed to build, test and package software.