One major improvement that could be made to cFE is the ability to specify which apps to build and which platforms to build for at runtime, instead of by changing the Makefiles. CACTUS has a rudimentary implementation of this (see CACTUS-Mission@bec0b57) so that we can declare THE_APPS as an environment variable. I think it would be a huge improvement to the build process to be able to optionally declare THE_APPS, PSP, BSP, and more at the make command line, i.e.

make THE_APPS="sample_lib sample_app"

Some tricks may need to be done to allow this to propagate to make sub-tasks, as those variables would only be accessible in the Makefile in the directory the command is run.