An Automatic Make Facility  
   Holyer and Pehlivan 2000 - Program uses no makefile. It records manually-issued compilation commands the first time round, then rebuilds programs using recorded command traces.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/holyer00automatic.html

A Case For Make  
   Fowler 1990 - Explains many old-make limitations and new-make (Nmake) features including procedure rules, accuracy mechanisms, viewpathing, and semaphores for blocking unwanted parallelism.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/fowler90case.html

Compare and Contrast Lucent Nmake and GNU Make  
   Lucent FAQ - Summarizes the function and typical syntax of many make features, using a convenient table format.
   http://www.bell-labs.com/project/nmake/faq/gmake.html

The Fourth Generation Make  
   Fowler 1985 - A new make tool with support for CPP, dependency generation, compiled makefiles, parallel execution, pathname parsing operators, and a powerful metalanguage for builtin rules.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/fowler85fourth.html

Make - A Program For Maintaining Computer Programs  
   Feldman 1979 - The original make paper, including makefile syntax, implicit rules, double colon targets, macros, VPATH macro, and the usual cleanup and install targets.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/feldman79make.html

Make It - Generating and Maintaining Makefiles Automatically  
   Schönherr and Wolff 1998 - A set of makefile dependency generator tools for working with files written in Knuth's Literate Programming style.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/332458.html

Makefile Setup for Java  
   Geosoft - A GNU Make and shell script setup for Java. Features dependency scanning, class files, JAR archives, JNI interfaces, RMI stub and skeletons, and Javadoc.
   http://geosoft.no/javamake.html

Parallel and Distributed Compilations in Loosely-Coupled Systems - A Case Study  
   Baalbergen 1986 - Distributing machine specific compilation phases among machines with a distributed make program is about 3.5 times faster.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/baalbergen86parallel.html

PGMAKE: A Portable Distributed Make System  
   Lih and Zadok 1994 - Reports design issues and results of modifying GNU Make to do distributed makes using the Oakridge PVM Parallel Virtual Machine.
   http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/470999.html

Recursive Make Considered Harmful  
   Miller 1997 - An argument against using recursive make techniques in the presence of cyclic dependencies among project subdirectories.
   http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html

Software Builds  
   Codefast - Contains many articles on software build topics such as problem scope, stakeholder design viewpoints, directory structures, architecture models, makefile generator tools and software build methods.
   http://www.codefast.com/index.html

Smart Software Build Tools - Executive Overview  
   Jameson 2003 - Management results of a 15-year research project to a build a knowledge-based software build system that calculates and executes scalable, multiplatform software builds with no human labor involved.
   http://www.codefast.com/z-readmore/smart-software-build-tools-mgmt.html

Smart Software Build Tools - Technical Overview  
   Jameson 2003 - Technical overview of a 15-year research project to a build a knowledge-based software build system that dynamically calculates and executes scalable, distributed, multiplatform software builds with no human labor involved.
   http://www.codefast.com/z-readmore/smart-software-build-tools-tech.html

SoftwareEngineering.Info  
   A web portal to the build management area on this general software engineering information website.
   http://www.softwareengineering.info/build/build.html

Recursive vs Non-recursive Makefile Architecture Speed Comparison  
   Kolpackov 2004 - This document compares recursive and non-recursive build systems (GNU make -j N) for building 277 software files in 15 directories using various combinations of parallelism and hardware. Non-recursive builds are faster.
   http://kolpackov.net/projects/build/benchmark.xhtml

Distcc, A Fast Free Distributed Compiler  
   Pool 2003 - This paper describes a distributed compiler for C/C++ programs, and provides a good discussion of key issues related to parallel, distributed software builds.
   http://distcc.samba.org/doc/lca2004/distcc-lca-2004.html