I do like simple makefiles. I adopted a C++-project without having much C++-knowledge, and simplifying the build setup was a big step in making it mine.

Thinking that it might be nice, I tried this one instead of my own approach at a simple makefile (https://github.com/onli/simdock/blob/master/Makefile) and I get this error:

> Makefile:16: * missing separator. Stop.

Which raises kind of an important point: Simple means understanding what is happening. I have no idea why `$(CC) $(OBJS) -o $@ $(LDFLAGS)` does raise that error - and just like that it is not simple for me anymore.

Edit: Now with the tab-error out of the way, it of course does not find the dependencies. That might be caused by a strange project organization (like said, it is an adopted project) or maybe the makefile is just not complete – I'm not sure how far the auto-generation is supposed to go. Played a bit with it, but that just removes the simplicity. For now, I think that the pkg-config way is nice and explicit, and would recommend to take a look at the linked makefile if a simple one is searched. Though I still would be happy about optimizations for that file!

I of course just might miss the point. Well, after all that supports mine: Not that simple after all.